Al-Bustan, Oman
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Al Bustān () is a village in
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Accessed 2011-05-12.
(23°34'15.02"; 58°36'32.70"E, 8 m altitude). Its cemetery was used during the Samad Late Iron Age.


Overview

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


Sources

* Paul Yule, ''Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte'' (2001), Taf. 482-500

* Paul Yule, ''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.


External links

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Archaeology of Oman The present-day Sultanate of Oman lies in the south-eastern Arabian Peninsula. There are different definitions for Oman: traditional Oman includes the present-day United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), though its prehistoric remains d ...
*http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/oman


See also

* List of lighthouses in Oman


References

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