Prince Sultan Bin Salman, President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), opens in Washington on Thursday an exhibit under the theme “Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Sackler director Julian Raby, Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough, Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir and other Saudi and US official attended the inauguration. The exhibit unearths a hidden history of the Arabian Peninsula through artifacts, jewelry, gravestones and other objects recently excavated in Saudi Arabia as archaeology has caught up with legends about the country's distant past. — SPA
