It's a compelling vision, nomadic herders wandering the plains of pre-Islamic Arabia, literate, inscribing poems, dreams and prayers on stones; centuries later,

It's a compelling vision, nomadic herders wandering the plains of pre-Islamic Arabia, literate, inscribing poems, dreams and prayers on stones; centuries later, their lives are remembered. I would like to know more about the deities hinted at in the article, about the cruelties of the Romans, about the Arab soldiers (or actors) writing in Safaitic in Pompeii