Timna (Arabic, تمنع) – an ancient city in Yemen, the capital of the kingdom of Kataban; it should be noted that this city is different from the city in southern Israel that bears the same name. In ancient times, Timna was an important transit point for the famous “incense road”, along which Arabian incense was delivered by camel caravans to the cities of the Mediterranean, the most famous of which were Gaza in Palestine and Petra in modern Jordan.

It was destroyed after the first conquest of Kataban by the Himyarites in the 1st century BC. AD After the restoration of the independence of Kataban in the II century. AD his capital was moved to the city of Zat Gailum.

American excavations at Timna took place in the 1950s. For information on the current state of the city, see Beihani.