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The Past

20,000 - 2,000 years ago
Qarn Bint Saud
















This large rock outcrop measures some 800 x 200 m and stands c. 60 m tall. It is located c. 15 kms 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.


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