Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn - http://whc.unesco.org/sites/434.htm
Oman sites added to the World Heritage Site list. |
Atlantis of the Sands - http://www.archaeology.org/9705/abstracts/ubar.html
Southern Oman yields ruins of an ancient city on the fabled frankincense route. |
Bahla Fort - http://whc.unesco.org/sites/433.htm
The ruins of the immense fort, with its walls and towers of unbaked brick and its stone foundations, is a remarkable example of this type of fortification and attests to the power of the Banu Nebhan. |
Digging in the Land of Magan - http://www.archaeology.org/9705/abstracts/magan.html
Oman's early settlers were Neolithic pastoralists and seafaring people who worked trade routes from Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley. |
German Archaeological Expedition to the Sultanate of Oman - http://omanarch.esmartweb.com/
Description of archaeological expeditions to the Sultanate of Oman and database of archaeological sites. |
Homage to Oman - http://www.archaeology.org/9705/etc/oman.html
Oman looking for evidence of its past, a daunting task considering the country's headlong pursuit of the future. |
Lost City of Arabia - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/indextext.html
NOVA story of the discovery of Shisur. |
Oasis Settlements in Oman - http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~makracht/dai/index.html
Information about a research project from the German Institute of Archaeology, to investigate early oasis settlements in the Al Hajar massif. |
Oman Archaeology Network - http://www.oman.org/arch00.htm
Project description for the Oman Archaeology Network proposed by the Oman Studies Center. Its aim is to bring together archaeologists with a special interest in Oman. |
Ubar Optical/Radar - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/ubar1.html
Pair of images from space shows a portion of the southern Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the country of Oman. |