It is located within the boundaries of the Hisma Desert, a sandy desert on the Arabian Peninsula that is one of the most beautiful deserts in the world. Its rocky mountains are characterized by their white, yellow, red and brown colors and distinctive geographic formations.
The Hisma Desert is an important place in human history because it was home to the Nabataeans (an ancient people of Semitic origin who arrived from the Arabian Peninsula in what is now southern Israel and southern Jordan around the 6th century BC) and other Arab tribes who, before the Nabataeans, left inscriptions in an Arabic dialect known as the Hismaic dialect.
