Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) signed last week, during the 2nd National Architectural Heritage Forum held in the Eastern Region, two cooperation agreements with the British University of Oxford and Japanese Kanazawa University to excavate antiquities in a number of archaeological sites dating back to the stone ages in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The agreement with the University of Oxford provides for archaeological excavations at two sites in old stone ages sites to be added to other three sites in which the University has been excavating according to scientific cooperation agreement signed between the Commission and the University in 2010. The second agreement with the Japanese University provides for conducting archaeological survey of stone ages sites in the regions of Jouf and Tabuk with the participation of the Commission's researchers.
