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The English Language School (ELS), also known as English Language Private School and formerly known as English Medium School, was established in April 1978 [1] in order to cater to the growing educational needs of people in UAE, especially Muslim and Asian people. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Dubai 2500–2000 BCE Umm Al Nar site with tomb Bidaa bint Saud: Abu Dhabi: 3200–2600 BCE Hafit and Iron Age burials Bithnah: Fujairah: 2000–300 BCE Wadi Suq burials and Iron Age petroglyphs Ed-Dur: Umm Al Quwain: 5300 BCE–300 CE Major ancient city/settlement spanning Ubeid period through Umm Al Nar, Wadi Suq to Iron Age and Pre-Islamic ...
United Arab Emirates accepted the convention on May 11 2001, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2024, The United Arab Emirates have only one World Heritage Site, Al Ain, which was inscribed in 2011. [2]
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 ...
In 1959, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the former ruler of Dubai, commissioned British architect John R Harris to create the city's first town plan. Soon afterwards, Harris began completing commissions for low- and mid-rise buildings that expressed the city's modern ambitions.
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This sector develops on the northern coastal area of Dubai, on the north bank of Dubai Creek. It corresponds to the historic district of Deira and its artificial island. With a population of approximately 494,000 residents on an area of just under 125 km 2 , it is the most densely populated sector (density of approximately 3,950 inhabitants/km 2 ).
Mleiha is strongly linked to the Ancient Near Eastern city of Ed-Dur on the UAE's west coast. [10] Macedonian-style coinage unearthed at Ed-Dur dates back to Alexander the Great. [ 11 ] Hundreds of coins were found both there and at Mleiha featuring a head of Heracles and a seated Zeus on the obverse, and bearing the name of Abi'el in Aramaic.