Recently discovered early Christian monuments in Northeastern Arabia

This article is written from first‐hand observation, albeit without the benefit of any controlled excavation. It is a “tourist observation.” It is offered to alert the archaeological community to a series of discoveries of singular importance in the history of the Persian Gulf, namely the discovery beneath the sands of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia of a Christian church predating (and postdating?) the appearance of Islam and the identification of two other nearby Christian sites.