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Jabal Ram (2414 words) |
 | Jabal Ram: Encyclopedia II - Arabic alphabet - Presentation of the alphabet |
 | The first known text in the Arabic alphabet is a late fourth-century inscription from Jabal Ram (50 km east of Aqaba), but the first dated one is a trilingual inscription at Zebed in Syria from 512. |
 | Jabal Ram: Encyclopedia II - Arabic alphabet - Structure of the Arabic alphabet |
| Saudi Aramco World : Valley Of The Moon (832 words) |
 | The Wadi Ram is actually a great fracture in the surface of the earth, the result, probably, of some titanic upheaval that cracked great slabs of granite and sandstone like so many shards of pottery and heaved them upward in the form of great cliffs. |
 | It is a cluster of tiny buildings standing in the center of a vast plain that lies between Jabal Ram on one side and Jabal Um Ishrin two thirds of a mile away on the other. |
 | Half a mile from the police post, on a small hill, are the remains of a small temple, probably Nabatean and probably built in the first century. |