🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Bidaa Bint Saud
Bidaa Bint Saud (Arabic: بِدَع بِنْت سُعُوْد, romanized: Bidaʿ Bint Suʿūd) is an archaeological site in Eastern Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the U.A.E., notable for its Hafit Period tombs,…
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Hafit Desert Kites (Al Ain piedmont, UAE–Oman border)
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (Hafit, 3200–2600 BCE) · Hafit (early eastern Arabian pastoral)
14 Hafit piedmont kites (3200–2600 BCE) interlocked with beehive tombs — Al Ain UNESCO landscape.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Hydraulic works
Aflaj of Al Ain Oasis
Iron Age to present ~1000 BCE–present · Omani/Hafit to UAE bedouin oases
Al Ain 3,000-year aflaj-fed palm oasis irrigating 147,000 palms with time-share water law.