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Thuqeibah is an important Iron Age archaeological site located in the municipality of al Madam, in the Emirate of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). It has been dated to around 900 BC. It includes a well-preserved village and an extensive area of irrigated crops with a complex water distribution network, supplied by a main underground channel called falaj. The site has been excavated since 1994 by a Spanish research team from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with the support of the Sharjah Archaeology Authority. This model corresponds to one of the sections offalaj excavated during the 2018 campaign under the direction of Carmen del Cerro Linares.
Tomb III is very unique structure. The tomb’s large size is unusual for mortuary monuments of the early 3rd millennium B.C. The internal perimeter wall, at its preserved height of 1.4 meters, shows no evidence ... Read More
BHS 64 is a circular Bronze Age (Hafit Period), above ground tomb, cairn type tomb . Investigations of this tomb resulted in the discovery of a minimal amount of skeletal fragments. Just outside the cental ... Read More
The excavated area of the famous horse and camel tomb that is now reconstructed and on display in the Mleiha Archaeological Center in Mleiha, Sharjah. Pre-Islamic. Read More