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It was first excavated in 1969 with different ancient items including architectural and decorative findings, ranging from a mosque, caravanserai, and residential houses to glazed pottery jars and plateware, bronze coins, glass and stone artefacts. [1] [2] [3] It is owned and managed by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Site Image Location Criteria Area ha Year of submission Description Settlement and Cemetery of Umm an-Nar Island: Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Cultural 2012 [4]Sir Abu Nu'ayr: Emirate of Sharjah
Villa/Vila (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish and Portuguese placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa/vila is a town with a charter (fuero or foral) of lesser importance than a ciudad/cidade ("city"). When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a ...
Dubai British School; Dubai College; Dubai English Speaking College; Dubai International Academy; Dubai International School; Dubai Japanese School; Dubai National School, Al Barsha; Dubai National School, Al Twar; Dubai Scholars Private School; Emirates International School – Jumeirah; English College Dubai; English Language School, Dubai ...