al-Akhḍar (literally, the green) in Wadi Samad (22°50'37"N, 58°10'39"E, 577 m altitude) is an archaeological site in Mudhaibi Wilayat Sharqiyah, in Central Oman. This cemetery was inhabited from the

Umm an-Nar Umm Al Nar ( ar, أُمّ الـنَّـار, Umm an-Nār or Umm al-Nar, lit=Mother of the Fire) is a Bronze Age culture that existed around 2600-2000 BCE in the area of modern-day United Arab Emirates and Northern Oman. The Arabic name has in th ...

to the Samad Late Iron Age and during Islamic times.

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Paul Yule Paul Yule may refer to: * Paul Yule (photojournalist) (born 1956), photojournalist and film maker * Paul Alan Yule, German archaeologist See also * Paul Youll Paul Youll (born 1965 in Hartlepool, England) is a science fiction and fantasy artist ...

, ''Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte'' (2001),

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, ''Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia'', Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014,

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, ''Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age'', Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 31‒71, ISSN 0905-7196 *

– Gerd Weisgerber†, ''The Cemetery at al-Akhḍar near Samad al-Shān in the Sharqīya (Oman), Der Anschnitt'', 2015, 111‒78

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*http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/oman History of Oman Archaeological sites in Oman