This small oasis is located in the Wadi Ham, the main route of access leading from the interior of the UAE to Fujairah on the East Coast. In addition to a fine example of a local mudbrick fort dating, most probably, to the nineteenth century, Bithna is also the site of an important tomb from the second millennium BC which was investigated by a Swiss team of archaeologists from Geneva. The tomb at Bithna is T-shaped and thus resembles somewhat another grave excavated by a German team at Dhayah in northern Ras al-Khaimah. The Bithna structure was badly disturbed in antiquity and the human remains recovered were meagre. Pottery and soft-stone vessels show that the tomb was used from about the middle of the second millennium BC through the first millennium BC