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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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