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From Iron-Age metal smelting to complex irrigation channels, emirate passed many eras

Managed by Dubai Culture, these sites represent the legacy of Dubai's historical inhabitants and their interactions with others in the Near East

Published: Sun 26 May 2024, 1:34 PM Last updated: Sun 26 May 2024, 1:36 PM Archaeological surveys over the years in Dubai have unea

This novel has been published in 2008 on my blog in serial chapters. A quick summary of the history of this region, the Levant or Near East (Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Turkey), starting two centuries preceding the fiction events of this novel, can shed a satisfactory understanding for the setting of this historical fiction around the…

As the Islamic Empire spread across the Middle East and North Africa, and into Spain, the incoming culture began to make inroads on local lifestyles.

In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document has remained authentic and guide for governments and rights’ activism worldwide. The makers of the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights had failed to let the world know that most of the Articles…

Results from sifting 1,600-year-old garbage during a first excavation season at Nahal Omer suggest luxury goods from East were in high demand in the 8th century CE, researchers say

A Bahrani-British team have proven that Bahrain’s Al Sayah Island is a man-made island built around a freshwater spring 1,200 years ago, rewriting its history.