The Origin and Form of the Concept of Scepter in a New Discovery of a Paleolithic Stone Structures Uncovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Archaeological discoveries have witnessed exceptional field work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in recent years, with prominent government support and interest. Our study is one of the field studies in which we will try to shed light on an important archaeological discovery related to stone structures, which number in the hundreds of thousands, spread throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including a type we called the "Sarcophagu burials", because the design of the burial resembles the scepter known in the eastern civilizations neighboring the Arabian Peninsula, and it’s still used on religious and royal occasions, where it is carried by kings and clerics.

We will try to re-analyzed and rooted the design of these burial and linked it to the pictorial form of the oldest pictorial writing known to the eastern Arabian Peninsula in the region known as southern Mesopotamia, where the first formal signs of writing were discovered by the Sumerians. We will also try to re-analyzed of the design of the vault from an artistic standpoint and return it to the art of ancient Egypt civilization and Mesopotamian. What is surprising is that the interpretations of the symbols’ form and meaning were mostly identical in terms of purpose and design.