It stretches for about 10 kilometers between the villages of Ayn Bani Sa’dah (al-Ayn), Qumayrah and Bilt.
[1][2] The valley was surveyed in the late 1990s, but had never been closely investigated by archaeologists before,[3][4] so the project started with an archaeological reconnaissance.
The site encompasses 10 circular graves with diameters ranging from 6 to 11 m. Most of them are located near a modern cemetery and cover an area of approximately 0.4 ha; only one structure lies about 450 m away, near a wadi.
[8] A settlement existed here in the Bronze and Iron Ages, and late Islamic layers were also identified.
[2] Archaeologists uncovered houses from all the above-mentioned periods as well as a circular tower dated to the Bronze Age.