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Qarn Bint Saud
This large rock outcrop measures some 800 x 200 m
and stands c. 60 m tall. It is located c. 15 km to the north of the Al Ain oasis
offers a fantastic view of the desert surrounding it. Like a scaled down Jebel
Hafit, Qarn Bint Saud has always been visible from a distance and seems to have
attracted the pre-modern inhabitants of the region in all periods. Graves of the
type found at Jebel Hafit and Jebel Emalah, dating to c. 3000 BC, stand at the
base of Qarn Bint Saud, while graves of the second millennium BC, contemporary
with those at Qattarah and Ghalilah, stand on its flat-topped summit, as do
graves of the 1st millennium contemporary with Awhala or Muweilah. Several
kilometres west of Qarn Bint Saud, nestled in the dunes to the west of the rock
outcrop, is a mudbrick village, inundated by sand, like the ones at Rumeilah,
al-Madam and al-Thuqaibah.
Qattarah
In the early 1970s a Shimal-type long tomb was excavated by an Iraqi team at
Qattarah, a neighbourhood in Al Ain in the interior of Abu Dhabi. The tomb at
Qattarah was one of the very first tombs of 2nd millennium BC date excavated in
the Emirates. The material from this excavation is stored and, to some extent,
displayed in the Al Ain Museum. Among the most notable finds is a gold ornament
consisting of a double-headed, single-bodied animal. Similar finds are known
from the sites of Dhayah in northern Ras al-Khaimah and Bidya in northern
Fujairah. These were probably worn as a large medallion in a necklace.
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