Lion Tombs at Dadan, photograph by the Royal Commission of AlUla, Saudi Arabia.
The carved lions are thought to symbolise powerful status or strength, or they could have been carved to protect the tomb’s occupants. Some of the tombs may have belonged to members of the Minaean community who lived in Dadan after the fifth century BCE, including one of the ‘lion tombs’.
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