Archaeological discoveries to be unveiled

posted on 03/04/2008: 31 views

Major new finds relating to the country's archaeological heritage are to be announced in Al Ain today and Friday at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the UAE.

A total of fifteen papers will be presented by archaeologists from local departments and from foreign universities undertaking research in the Emirates. The papers will focus on the results of the winter 2007-2008 season. Among topics to be discussed will be a site at Jebel Faya, Sharjah, which was the home for the earliest known inhabitants of the country, from the Palaeolithic period, over 100,000 years ago, and new discoveries from the Neolithic or Late Stone Age period, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Islamic period.

The symposium is being organised by the Zayed Centre for Heritage and History, part of the Emirates Heritage Coub, and is being held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Emirates Heritage Club. "This annual meeting provides an opportunity for the country's archaeologists and foreign teams, as well as other interested people, to get together to review the results of the last season of work throughout the country," according to Dr. Hassan Naboodah, the Director of the Zayed Centre. "This year's symposium will be the largest so far held - an indication of the way in which studies of the UAE's ancient past are rapidly developing," he added. – Emirates News Agency, WAM

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