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Jebel Hafeet. Jabal Hafeet[7] (Arabic: جَبَل حَفِيْت, romanized: Jabal Ḥafīt, "Mount Hafeet"; variously transcribed Jabel or Jebal and Hafit – literally "empty mountain") is a mountain in the region of Tawam, on the border of the United Arab Emirates and Oman, which may be considered an outlier of the Hajar Mountains [1][8] in ...
Hafit period. An unrestored beehive tomb from the Hafit period at Jebel Hafeet, on the border of the U.A.E. and Oman. Most of the hundreds of tombs to be found at the eastern foothills of the mountain have collapsed. The Hafit period defines early Bronze Age human settlement in the United Arab Emirates and Oman in the period from 3200 to 2600 B.C.
The Oman government has created the Wadi Sareen Reserve and an area of Jebel Qahwan-Jebal Sebtah in the Eastern Hajar, for the protection of Arabian tahr and mountain gazelle. For visitors, there is a road into the mountains from the town of Birkat al-Mawz (on the road to Nizwa from Muscat) and a walking route through Wadi al-Muaydin to the ...
The oldest radiometrically dated inland burial site in the UAE is the extensive necropolis at Jebel Buhais. [14] The site, located near Madam, in Sharjah, consists of burial sites spanning the Stone, Bronze, Iron and pre-Islamic ages of human settlement in the UAE. Burials at Jebel Buhais (Jebel is Arabic for mountain) date back to the 5th ...
A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek θολωτός τάφος, θολωτοί τάφοι, "domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones. The resulting structure resembles a beehive ...
Jabal Al Harim or Jebel Al Harim ( Arabic: جبل حارم, romanized : Jabal Ḥārim) [ 2] is a peak located in the Hajar Mountains range, north of the Sultanate of Oman, in the Musandam Governorate. It is the highest mountain in the Musandam Peninsula. It has an elevation of 2,087 m (6,847 ft), a prominence of 1,720 m (5,640 ft) and a ...
A Hafit era 'beehive' tomb at Mezyad [13] [14] – Jebel Hafeet Desert Park, [15] Al Ain, Eastern Region of Abu Dhabi. In 2011 primitive hand-axes, as well as several kinds of scrapers and perforators, were excavated at the Jebel Faya archaeological site in the United Arab Emirates.
Jabal Qada'ah[2] (Arabic: جبل قداعة, romanized: Jabal Kidā'ah), also known as Jabal Al Aḩqab, [3] is a mountain located in the Hajar Mountains range, northeast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. Its summit has an altitude of 1,375 m (4,511 ft), a significant prominence of 460 m (1,510 ft) and a ...