Eastern Region occupies the eastern part of Saudi Arabia, overlooking the Arabian Gulf, and its territory is a flat coastal plains abound with salt marshes and land, also includes many of the oases and fertile hills and valleys and sand dunes. Hadhartha and the city of Dammam. And return evidence of human settlement in the region to about 5000 years BC. The Canaanites were the first people who mentioned the date as residents of this region since 3000 years BC, have been displaced from the middle of the Arabian Peninsula.

And almost the effects of human settlement in the eastern region more clearly than in any part of the Kingdom and the reason for this is due to several factors such as geographic location in addition to overseeing a large part of the coast of Arabian Gulf, which made it provides an important role in human communications trade between the peoples of those cultures Since more than five thousand years has shown archaeological surveys conducted by the Deputy Ministry of Antiquities Ministry of Education so far that there are more than 300 archaeological sites in the region representing different periods ranging history of the stone ages, even the Islamic eras and there are many historical monuments dating back to the Islamic periods late and highlights The development of civilization and is an example of the evolution of traditional architecture of the region