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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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