Al-Rakah Antiquities

Al-Rakah located in the north of Al-Khobar city. John Gordon Lorimer wrote about it in his book Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia: "A well located on the coast one mile northwest of Al-Husayn Castle".^[3]

The city was underground, they excavation the area and discover 20 house and many wells.^[4] The lower layer of the houses was covered with 10 cm of sand, topped with a layer of compost.^[4] The house consist of four bedrooms one of them for only making date molasses, this explains that the area was full of palm trees.^[4] They discover in the same place some pottery pieces and ceramic pieces, glass, soapstone and some of coins from the first and second Hijri century (Sadr Al-Islam, the Umayyad period and the beginning of the Abbasid era).^[4]

The house has an external courtyard which include many ovens. Each group of houses has a well, while the depth of the well is two meters. Also, the well is connects with a basin. Then the water serve the northern side and southeast .