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<< Text Pages >> Mowaihat - Chambered Cairn in United Arab Emirates

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 05 August 2006  Page Views: 5935

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mowaihat
Country: United Arab Emirates
NOTE: This site is 14.824 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Dubai  Nearest Village: Ajman
Latitude: 25.426306N  Longitude: 55.529001E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Chambered Cairn in United Arab Republic

Circular Umm al-Nar-type tomb dating to between 2000 and 1300 BCE, of about 8.25 Meter in diameter located on the oustkirts of Ajman and dicovered in 1986. The excavation was uncovered numerous examples of soft-stone and painted ceramic vessels, beads, two stamp seals, a number of copper implements, and the skeletons of several dozen individuals. The Mowaihat artifacts are displayed in the Ajman Museum. The Umm al-Nar culture stretched to the Oman Border.
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Re: Mowaihat by xiaohuo143210 on Wednesday, 14 March 2018
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the GPS Location of many sites are wrong.

For example, the Al Souf site location is 25°06'40.5"N 55°10'28.6"E

Also the Mowaihat site, the current location is China Mall.
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    Re: Mowaihat by Anne T on Thursday, 15 March 2018
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    Thanks very much for pointing this out, xiaohuo143210. If you want to add the correct co-ordinates and any corrections to the individual site pages, we'll make sure they are updated.
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