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Site WatchSite Name: Ras Al Khaimah Tombs
Country: United Arab Emirates Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Ras Al Khaimah
Latitude: 25.799000N  Longitude: 55.975000E
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Ras Al Khaimah Tombs submitted by bat400 : Shimal site Site in United Arab Emirates. "One of the ancient tombs near Shimal, an indicator of how long the Ras al Khaimah area has been settled. This is from the Wadi Suq Period (almost 4000 years ago!). " -Gordontour One of the ancient tombs near Shimal, an indicator of how long the Ras al Khaimah area has been settled. This is from the Wadi Suq Period (almost 4000 years ago!). Earlie... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Tombs in Ras Al Khaimah.
The tombs date from the Wadi Suq period, from 2000 to 1600BC. Three tombs will be destroyed by the 32-kilometre RAK Ring Road that will bypass the city. Three of 60 tombs will be destroyed to make way for a new ring road but scores of other tombs scattered along the base of the Hajjar mountains will be preserved.

The excavation and study, by six archaeologists from the University of Durham and the RAK Antiquities Department, was ordered by Sheikh Saud bin Saqr, the current Ruler.

The location given is for the city itself and does not reflect the location of any one tomb site.

Source: www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news.


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Small sacrifice to make way for RAK ring road by bat400 on Tuesday, 21 January 2014
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The Qarn Al Harf site was first surveyed in 1999 and protected in 2001 by the late Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed.
Three of the 60 tombs will be destroyed to make way for a new ring road but scores of other tombs scattered along the base of the Hajjar mountains will be preserved.

“The problem is, and it’s a problem we have in Europe as well, that sometimes even in preserved areas something has to be done or something has to be cut off for the greater good of the country,” said Christian Velde, an archaeologist at the RAK Antiquities Department.

The motorway is long-awaited in RAK, where the city centre is polluted and pockmarked by a stream of lorries that rumbles through from the quarries on the north coast.

“It was very important for His Highness to establish the fact that, if something like this happens, the Government will pay what it costs to retrieve as much information out of something before it will be destroyed or before anything will have to be moved,” Mr Velde said.

In a region inhabited for as long as the north coast, it is difficult to build without damaging ancient sites.

The Antiquities Department worked with the Government to reroute the motorway so that unique sites such as the 17th century Fahlain mosque and the 110 tombs of the Shimal area were protected.

Source: http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritage/small-sacrifice-to-make-way-for-rak-ring-road#ixzz2r0RsLj1U
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Archaeologists make last ditch attempt to rescue remains of pre-historic tombs in RAK by bat400 on Tuesday, 21 January 2014
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Hundreds of lorries will rattle down the new Ras Al Khaimah truck road that is expected to open next year, but there will be no clue that they are thundering over the remains of 4,000-year-old tombs.

Archaeologists are in the final days of a three-month rescue excavation of the Qarn Al Harf tombs built by prehistoric date farmers.

Four megalithic, communal tombs are being excavated by archaeologists from the University of Durham in the UK and the Ras Al Khaimah Antiquities Department, ordered by the Ruler of RAK, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr.

Three tombs will be destroyed by the 32-kilometre RAK Ring Road that will bypass the city to connect the quarries and factories of the north coast with the 311 motorway.

Bone fragments, carnelian beads, seashell rings and stone vessels found within the ancient tombs will reveal the mysteries of the people who cultivated the palm gardens below the Hajjar mountains.

One Shimal-type, single-chambered tomb is the largest of its type at 24 metres long. These ancient megastructures were built of boulders that weighed up to a tonne and were carved from the mountain with bronze tools. But to the untrained eye, the unearthed tombs appeared as gentle mounds on the acacia-dotted floodplain, covered by 80 centimetres of powdery soil.
The excavated tombs are on a fertile plain between Wadi Naqab and Wadi Al Baih that contains at least 60 tombs, field systems and houses first discovered in 1988. Scores of such tombs are found at the base of the Hajjar mountains.

The palm gardens have been continuously inhabited for 4,000 years. The tombs, about 600 metres away, were reused and plundered over millennia, so that the story of their builders remains a mystery.

Said Christian Velde, a resident archaeologist at the RAK Department of Antiquities “There’s so much change that all the old prehistoric evidence has been destroyed by the following generations.”
For this reason, it is difficult to know about the burial process, how many people were buried in each tomb or their religious beliefs.
“We don’t know anything besides the fact that they really put a lot of effort into building these tombs, that they put the community together, they buried everybody in there,” Mr Velde said. “It’s quite equalising.”

Families were together in death, as in life. A typical 12 to 14-metre Shimal tomb would hold 30 to 50 people. “Stillborn babies, small children up to very old people, male and female, everybody was buried in this tomb,” Mr Velde said.

Life was nasty, brutish and short. Women had an average life expectancy of 25 years. Men lived, on average, to age 35.

When the archaeologists return to the UK with the tombs’ treasures, it will take about 18 months to analyse the collection of stone beads, shell rings, metal earrings, pottery shards and stone vessels.

“We had to say we cannot move the road in this area,” Mr Velde said. “We can at least excavate.”

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see http://www.thenational.ae
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    Re: Archaeologists make last ditch attempt to rescue remains of pre-historic tombs in by Andy B on Friday, 24 January 2014
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    Aside from not being good news, that is a really bad pun... thanks for the link. Also a family who should turn off GPS on their camera are appearing on this page!
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