Deep in the northern Arabian Desert, in a sleepy farming community, huge red boulders rise out of the sand. The farmers already knew that the boulders abutting their fields were something special. When they looked closely at the towering rock edifices, they could just make out enormous, life-sized carvings of camels and hooved, horse-like animals. For millennia, the site has sat largely undisturbed, except for the occasional rooster crowing or dog barking on a nearby farm. In 2010, the site came to the attention of Hussein al-Khalifa, the former director…
