Timna
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Timna
- Ancient site.map_type
- Yemen
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Yemen
- Ancient site.region
- Shabwah Governorate
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Timna (Qatabānic: , romanized: , ; ) is an ancient city in Yemen, the capital of the Qataban kingdom.
During ancient times, Timna was an important hub in the famous Incense Route, which supplied Arabian and Indian incense via camel caravan to ports on the Mediterranean Sea, most notably Gaza, and Petra.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Timna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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