Prehistoric site discovered in Oman

A Polish research team from the University of Warsaw’s Institute of Archaeology has discovered a total of seven sites, one of which is apparently prehistoric, in a recent excursion to northwestern Oman.

Polish archaeologists at work in Oman 
[Credit: PCMA/Łukasz Rutkowski]

Professor Piotr Bieliński, director of the project, stated that “this season’s finds hint at [one site] being a pre-agricultural Neolithic site, which is a very interesting phenomenon in the Middle East.”

“A burial ground from the Hafit period (beginning of the 3rd millennium BC) with stone tower-tombs,” was discovered, according to the website for the Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology.

Surveys of four settlement sites and five burial sites were the introduction to a four-year long Polish-Omani research project in the micro-region Qumayrah, a mountain valley near the towns of Bilt and Al-'Ayn.

The project is scheduled to last until 2018.

Source: Radio Poland [November 17, 2015]