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🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Sassanian to Ya'rubi (500–1650 continuous) · Rustaq Batinah tribe communities
Batinah piedmont aflaj swarm: 18 lines (1.2-8 km) feeding Rustaq fortress oasis on Hajar bajada.
🇴🇲 Oman · Earthwork
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, Qara Neolithic · Dhofar Neolithic pastoral-hunter groups
18 Neolithic limestone desert kites (4600-3800 BCE) on Dhofar's Jebel Qara, southernmost kite province at monsoon escarpment.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Iron Age II to Islamic (1000 BCE–present; active) · Iron Age Oman (Lizq–Rumaylah) → Sasanian → Islamic Ya'aribah
3.5-km Iron Age daudi qanat (c.1000 BCE, 8 shafts) delivering 70 l/s — UNESCO aflaj flagship at Birkat al-Mouz.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Sasanid 600 CE to Ya'rubi 1680 CE Rustaq Batinah · Omani Rustaq Batinah (Sasanid to Ya'rubi Imamate)
Rustaq West Branch falaj 6.0 km (4.2 daudi +1.8 ghailli) 56 shafts 18 m mother 14 L/s with birka 12 m: Ya'rubi 1680 on Sasanid 600.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Islamic · Omani, Sasanian Persian, Ibadi
Nizwa Daudi mother well 30 m with 8-km tunnel and shari'a sharing basin, UNESCO aflaj highland branch.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Iron Age to Modern (Hafit to Islamic) · Hajar oasis (Magan to Islamic)
Cross-border aflaj network (320 m, 24°15′N 55°45′E Buraimi) extending the UNESCO Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman (1207, 2006) from Nizwa-Sharqiyah to the Hajar-Buraimi piedmont.
🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period, 5300–5000 BCE) · East Arabian Neolithic (Ubar–Wusta pastoral, Humid Period)
30 large mustatils (5300–5000 BCE) at Ubar — easternmost Rub al Khali cattle-cult province.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Iron Age (1000 BCE) to present · Omani, Iron Age to Islamic
Approximately 3,000 still-active aflaj (singular falaj) thread Oman, of which five exemplars — Daris, Al-Khatmeen, Al-Malki, Al-Jeela and Al-Muyassar — are inscribed.
