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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 .
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.
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]
Mleiha: The Mleiha Archaeological Centre was opened in January 2016. [39] The visitor centre includes displays of artefacts from the Umm Al Nar and Iron Ages of the UAE, as well as important evidence of the emergence of humankind from Africa, 125,000 years ago. The multi-phase eco-tourism development is intended in future to comprise ...
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At Al Sufouh Archaeological Site in Dubai, archaeological excavation between 1994 and 1995 revealed an Umm Al Nar type circular tomb dating between 2500 and 2000 B.C. 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.
Jebel Mileiha, some 20 km (12 miles) to the south of Dhaid, is the site of 'Fossil Rock', a popular off-road destination and now home to the Mleiha Archaeological Centre, which displays important archaeological finds from the area dating back 125,000 years, through the Umm Al Nar era to the later Hellenistic period, including 2nd century BCE coins.