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The photos of the landscapes are what sold me — I had no idea AlUla had that kind of scale until I flipped through the spreads. It balances the ancient sites with the newer development without feeling like a tourism brochure.

The chapter on Hegra's rock-cut tombs is what sold me, but I didn't expect the writing to hold up so well. It's a coffee-table book that actually gets read, and the sections on how ancient sites sit alongside modern development gave me a real sense of the place.

The photos of the rock-cut tombs at Hegra are stunning, and I didn't expect the book to cover how the ancient sites sit alongside the newer cultural development. It's the kind of book that made me immediately start looking up flights.