Akhdoud” town and Najran's Heritage and Antiquities Museum have attracted to the southern region some 13,000 tourists in the last two months, local officials have said. Saleh Aal Murayyeh of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities said the attractions, along with the historic Governorate Palace, had undergone works since the beginning of the year to provide the sort of sites to which visitors are now flocking. “The Al-Akhdoud Museum contains many archeological pieces, images and drawings that go back further than two thousand years,” Aal Murayyeh said of the museum which charts the history of the Al-Akhdoud trenches as mentioned in the Qur'an.
