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Mleiha Bronze Age Umm Al Nar tomb near the Mleiha Archaeological Centre, built around 2,300 BCE and used until 2,100 BCE. Meliha Archaeological Centre is a visitor centre and exhibition based around the history and archaeology of the areas surrounding the village of Mleiha in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates.
The Mleiha Archaeological Centre displays evidence of the oldest archaeological finds in the UAE, the prehistoric Faya-1 collection, which dates human occupation in the area to 130,000–120,000 BCE, and has been linked to the movement of the first anthropologically modern humans from Africa to populate the world, [6] before finds of a yet earlier date (50,000 years) had been found at Misliya ...
Mleiha, also Mileiha or Malaihah (Arabic: ملَيْحَة), is a town in the Emirate of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a population of 4,768 (2015), [1] [2] located some 25 km (16 miles) south of the inland Sharjah town of Dhaid. [3]
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Mleiha cemetery (Arabic: مدفن مليحة) is an archaeological burial site located in the Mleiha area near the Mleiha Archaeological Centre in the United Arab Emirates, approximately 50 kilometers east of Sharjah city.
Mleiha: Sharjah 5300–300 BCE Settlement through Ubaid, Hafit, Umm Al Nar, Wadi Suq and Iron Age to Hellenistic Mleiha & pre-Islamic periods Muweilah: Sharjah 1100–600 BCE Iron Age II settlement Qattara Oasis: Abu Dhabi 1800–1500 BCE Bronze and Iron Age settlement Rumailah: Abu Dhabi 2000–1000 BCE Umm Al Nar through to Iron Age II settlement
An Umm Al Nar tomb forms the centrepiece of the Mleiha Archaeological Centre in Sharjah. Dilmun Burial Mounds in Bahrain also feature Umm Al Nar Culture remains. At Tell Abraq , settlements associated with the start of the Umm Al Nar Culture began c. 2500 BCE.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1]