Sab'yn Culture?

**Parallel Pain** · 02-19-2008, 00:43

Ya EB researchers and anyone else who knows:

To help my AAR (if only a little bit) I need some information about the culture of Sab'yn.

And I am not very knowledgeful in this area

Wiki gave some, but not a lot.

So what are some Sab'yn culture and traditons?

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 02-20-2008, 06:56

Pre-Islamic Arabia is an area of expertise that has very few experts. There really isn't an expert for Sab'yn in EB right now...

**Geoffrey S** · 02-20-2008, 08:26

But there are books. It's listed in the EB book guide topic, but what I found most accessible was Jean-François Breton's Arabia felix - from the time of the queen of Sheba. It doesn't quite cover the EB period, but describes the situation in south-western Arabia in general and quite a lot on religion in Saba. It's easily the most accessible work on the subject and readily available on amazon for a low price.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 02-20-2008, 14:36

Originally Posted by Geoffrey S

But there are books. It's listed in the EB book guide topic, but what I found most accessible was Jean-François Breton's Arabia felix - from the time of the queen of Sheba. It doesn't quite cover the EB period, but describes the situation in south-western Arabia in general and quite a lot on religion in Saba. It's easily the most accessible work on the subject and readily available on amazon for a low price.

Definitely. And it was used as the primary source for much of our information on Sabaean buildings also.

**Geoffrey S** · 02-20-2008, 15:01

A bit too closely though, perhaps? Some of the parts of the book sounded a little bit too familiar when compared with what I remembered of the EB descriptions, but I can imagine that being a difficult point to address as long as the team is incomplete for this faction.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 02-20-2008, 15:16

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Anything about the whereabouts of Qwery?

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**Teleklos Archelaou** · 02-20-2008, 16:02

Originally Posted by Geoffrey S

A bit too closely though, perhaps? Some of the parts of the book sounded a little bit too familiar when compared with what I remembered of the EB descriptions, but I can imagine that being a difficult point to address as long as the team is incomplete for this faction.

It's difficult when you don't know much of anything about a group of ancient people but the person who was the FC bailed on you, and there is pretty much only one really accessible book about them in your language, and it is somewhat of a slender volume itself. But yes, point taken.