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al-Akhḍar (literally, the green) in Wadi Samad (22°50'37"N, 58°10'39"E, 577 m altitude) is an archaeological site in Mudhaibi Wilayat Sharqiyah, in Central Oman. This cemetery was inhabited from the Umm an-Nar to the Samad Late Iron Age and during Islamic times.


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Sources

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

* Paul Yule, ''Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia'', Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014,

* Paul Yule, ''Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age'', Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 31‒71, ISSN 0905-7196 * Paul Yule
Gerd Weisgerber Gerd Weisgerber (January 24, 1938 in Saarwellingen – June 22, 2010 in Recklinghausen) was an eminent Germany, German professor of mining archaeology. He was one of the first mining archaeologists of the world, who set standards in this scientific ...
†, ''The Cemetery at al-Akhḍar near Samad al-Shān in the Sharqīya (Oman), Der Anschnitt'', 2015, 111‒78


See also

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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 ...


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External links

*http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/oman Archaeological sites in Oman