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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 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, 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]
Jumeirah Archaeological Site: Kalba: Sharjah 2500–1300 BCE Umm Al Nar settlement Kush: Ras Al Khaimah 600-1400 CE Late pre-Islamic to Islamic settlement Masafi: Ras Al Khaimah 1300–300 BCE Iron Age finds Mleiha: Sharjah 5300–300 BCE Settlement through Ubaid, Hafit, Umm Al Nar, Wadi Suq and Iron Age to Hellenistic Mleiha & pre-Islamic ...
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.
Iron Age I spanned 1,200–1,000 BCE, Iron Age II from 1,000 to 600 BCE, and Iron Age III from 600 to 300 BCE. This period of human development in the region was followed by the Mleiha or Late Pre-Islamic era, from 300 BCE onwards through to the Islamic era which commenced with the culmination of the 7th-century Ridda Wars.
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