Mathrarah Historic Village in Al Dayer
Mathrarah Historic Village is one of the archaeological mountain villages in Al Dayer Bani Malik governorate and represents the traditional stone architecture for which the governorate's mountains are famous, with its houses built of stone on slopes overlooking the farming terraces. Al Dayer Bani Malik governorate lies east of the Jazan region in southern Saudi Arabia. It is known for towering heights, green terraces and archaeological castles scattered across the summits and heights that embrace the mist, in a scene of beauty that records the long past of these villages and buildings, with a wonderful architectural style and engineering art. In their features you can read longing and nostalgia for the past, now that modern civilisation has overtaken people, and you can sense the strength and skill of the design. There is no valley or mountain that does not hold a number of villages and stone forts. For this reason Al Dayer Bani Malik governorate holds the largest concentration of stone forts in the world, which is evidence of the antiquity of human settlement and dense population, and of great progress in construction and agriculture in those eras. One sign of the antiquity of the archaeological forts in Al Dayer and its mountains is the absence of mosques, congregational mosques and places of worship from their original designs, which means they predate the Islamic era. Some drawings and emblems belong to the first and second Himyarite periods. The forts also appear in anci
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