Arabia: Fragment of a Kindah wall painting with a man’s head, Qaryat al-Faw, southern Riyadh Province, 1st to 2nd century CE, National Museum, Riyadh

Qaryat al-Faw was the capital of the Kindah Kingdom from the 1st century BCE to the 4th century CE, one of the pre-Islamic kingdoms of the south-central Arabian Peninsula. The Kindah originally came from Yemen after the demolition of the Ma'rib Dam, which led to the fall of the Kingdom of Saba'.

The Kingdom of Kindah is thought by many historians to have been a Bedouin tribal kingdom, unlike other organised kingdoms founded in the Arabian Peninsula.

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