Turaif governorate, located in Saudi Arabia’s Northern Borders area, serves as a crossroads for ancient civilisations and a gateway to Iraq and the Levant. The governorate is home to a number of significant cultural and heritage monuments, many of which date back to pre-Islamic periods. One of the most notable cultural sites is the archaeological site of Qasr Duqrah, located 40 km southwest of the governorate.
Aqran, also known as Duqrah Mount, is a nearby mountain that has been documented by the Comprehensive Archaeological Survey Program. According to Zahi Al-Khalawi, a member of the Saudi Historical Society, the site is one of the Kingdom’s most important archaeological sites since it has evidence of human habitation going back to the Stone Age. He claimed that occupancy at the site remained during the later Roman period (2 to 6 centuries C.E.) and into the Umayyad era (661 to 750 C.E.).
Another notable monument is the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, often known as the Tapline, which is an important industrial historical site in Saudi Arabia. The pipeline runs from the Kingdom’s east to north, passing through Turaif, and is included on the National Industrial Heritage Register. It is the Kingdom’s earliest documented industrial heritage site, capturing the early phases of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry and its developmental and economic significance.
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