Ikmah Mountain

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Ikmah Mountain (Arabic:جبل عكمة, transliterated: Jabal Ikmah) is a mountain in southest Northern Wilds, Al-Ula Valley. Because of the several hundred inscriptions engraved and carved onto the rocks, it received the moniker of the Open-Air Library.

History

The messages inscribed on Jabal Ikmah are estimated to have been written between 500-300 BCE and are mostly in Dadanitic language. These messages include ritual formulas, testimonies on agriculture and religious dedications, many of which are requests for blessings and strong rains, as well as offerings to the Lihyanite god Dhu Ghaybah in exchange for safe travels. Other carvings interpretations include a hunting scene, a field of crops and an animal deity.

In the 860s, Basim ibn Ishaq visited the landmark, while traveling through the valley. There, a visiting historian from Baghdad requested his help, for the three students that accompannied him to study the carvings had been absent for a while. Basim checked in on the three students, who all provided Basim with wild interpretations of the images on the rocks they had been examining, and he returned to the historian to report back before leaving. At the site, Basim also recovered a paper containing Ya Durub As-saba (O Paths of Youth), an oud melody.

In 2023, Jabal Ikmah was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Valley of Memory
• Echoes of History – Valley of Memory