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Excavation unearths oldest archaeological site in UAE By Prerna Suri 8 February 2005 DUBAI — The oldest archaeological site in the UAE dating back to 7,000 years, has been discovered on the island of Marawah, located about 100km west of Abu Dhabi, according to Dr Mark Beech, Senior Resident Archaeologist for the Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey (ADIAS). Dr Beech disclosed the findings at a lecture organised by the Dubai Natural History Group which was attended by a large crowd. The lecture covered important findings and discoveries by ADIAS during their excavation in 2004 including a skeleton of what is...

Ancient UAE Was Active Trading Hub© XPRESS/DANESH MOHIUDDIN Archaeologists now claim that the Arabian Peninsula was home to developed settlements during the same period. Published: August 16, 2007, 12:13 By Derek Baldwin, Staff Reporter You might want to set aside those early school lessons that taught you the dawn of Western civilisation was confined to Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). An expert panel of archaeologists from around the world now claim the Arabian Peninsula – long thought to be a barren wasteland from around 5,000BC – was home to developed settlements during the same period. In the August 3 edition of Science...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/24/02 - Moscow, Rub’ al-Khali BREAKING: Theater seized by terrorists BREAKING: Saudi Arabia and Yemen hide Al Qaedi in the Rub’ al-Khali =========== Moscow =========== SF near theater, seized by terrorists, late Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2002. Armed men took the audience hostage, freed the Moslems and their Chechen allies. =========== Rub’ al-Khali =========== The Rub’ al-Khali, a sedimentary basin across the Arabian shelf. The sands is silicate, 80 - 90% quartz and feldspar. Ferric (iron) oxide Fe2O3 givew the sands an orange-red color. The largest sand sea on Earth (560,000 km2). aka...