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Accessed 2011-05-12. (23°34'15.02"; 58°36'32.70"E, 8 m altitude). This cemetery was used during the Samad Late Iron Age.

Overview

In 1991 the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture became aware of this cemetery, close to the Al-Bustan Palace. In the same year a team from the German Mining Museum in Bochum excavated seven graves.

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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), Taf. 482-500

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, ''Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia'', Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, 89 * Paul A. Yule, ''Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age'', Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 31‒71.

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*http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/oman

References

History of Oman Archaeological sites in Oman Populated places in the Muscat Governorate Lighthouses in Oman {{Oman-geo-stub