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In 1984 a Franco‐Yemeni Mission excavating a part of the necropolis of Hajar am‐Dhaybiyya (Governate of Shabwa, Yemen), unearthed several tombs with a rich inventory. The high quality of silver craftmanship of these objects suggested that the Wâdî Dura’was potentially interesting. Some years later a Franco‐American expedition, directed both by J.‐F. Breton and D.W. Warburton, started a trench on the mound of Hajar am‐Dhaybiyya. A 40 metre‐long trench was opened during the first two seasons (1992 and 1993) which revealed an architectural sequence of four main levels. Level IV was dominated by a large‘Maison principale’connected with a stone Glacis, dated to the first centuries AD. Level V showed‘maisons basses’and earlier structures. For the first time in this area, the trench shows definitively that the principal buildings of the settlement form a nearly continuous defensive line crowning the top of the tell, and that it follows an earlier line.
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