Directory of Oman Resources

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The investigation of past cultures of the modern nationstate of Oman through the study and scientific analysis of material remains (i.e., osteological, artifactual, architectural, etc.).

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Resources in This Category

• Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn

  http://whc.unesco.org/sites/434.htm
  Oman sites added to the World Heritage Site list.

• Atlantis of the Sands

  http://www.archaeology.org/9705/abstracts/ubar.html
  Southern Oman yields ruins of an ancient city on the fabled frankincense route.

• Bahla Fort

  http://whc.unesco.org/sites/433.htm
  The ruins of the immense fort, with its walls and towers of unbaked brick and its stone foundations, is a remarkable example of this type of fortification and attests to the power of the Banu Nebhan.

• Digging in the Land of Magan

  http://www.archaeology.org/9705/abstracts/magan.html
  Oman's early settlers were Neolithic pastoralists and seafaring people who worked trade routes from Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley.

• Homage to Oman

  http://www.archaeology.org/9705/etc/oman.html
  Oman looking for evidence of its past, a daunting task considering the country's headlong pursuit of the future.

• Lost City of Arabia

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/indextext.html
  NOVA story of the discovery of Shisur.

• Oasis Settlements in Oman

  http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~makracht/dai/index.html
  Information about a research project from the German Institute of Archaeology, to investigate early oasis settlements in the Al Hajar massif.

• Oman Archaeology Network

  http://www.oman.org/arch00.htm
  Project description for the Oman Archaeology Network proposed by the Oman Studies Center. Its aim is to bring together archaeologists with a special interest in Oman.

• Ubar Optical/Radar

  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/ubar1.html
  Pair of images from space shows a portion of the southern Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the country of Oman.

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