Rwendo rwekuchera matongo rweSaudi / French rwakawana huwandu hwakawanda hwezvigadzirwa zvekare zvehari uye zvematanda nesimbi kuMadain Saleh (Al-Hijr), iyo yakatanga makore anopfuura 2000. Chikwata chakawanawo huwandu hwezvivakwa zvinotakura hunhu hunoratidza kuti nzvimbo yakashandiswa senzvimbo yebasa. Muzvinafundo Ali Al-Ghaban, mutevedzeri wemutungamiriri wezvekuchera matongo uye mamuseum, akataura kuti uyu ndiwo mwaka wechipiri wekuchera kuMadae'n Saleh, uyo unouya pasi pechirongwa chekudyidzana kwesainzi pamwe nenzendo dzepasirese mumunda wekuongorora nekuchera matongo, chibvumirano chekudyidzana pakati pe archaeology uye museum chikamu muSCTA, uye National French Research Center CNRC.
Muzvinafundo Ghaban akatsanangura kuti timu yekuchera inosanganisira 11 nyanzvi mune zvekuchera matongo, geo-fizikisi, zvinyorwa, geology, anthropology, GIS, uye mabasa ekudzoreredza, pakati pevamwe. Munguva yekutanga mwaka (2008), timu yakawana akawanda ezvivakwa munzvimbo yekugara - Al-Diwan nharaunda - uye Ethlib gomo. Parizvino, mabasa ekudzoreredza anoitwa kudzoreredza maumbirwo ezvivakwa nezvinhu zvakasikwa kuitira kuti zvisakanganisa nemhando yezvakawanikwa. Iyo yakasarudzika yemagetsi software inoshandiswa kunyora zvekufukunura kwechikwata uye mabasa ekudzoreredza.
UNESCO yakazivisa kuiswa kweMadain Saleh mune yayo yenyika runyorwa runyorwa, Chikunguru 2008. Ndiyo yekutanga saiti kubva kuHumambo hweSaudi Arabia kuverengerwa pane UNESCO runyorwa.
