Hafit period

Hafit period tombs and remains have also been located across the UAE and Oman in sites such as Bidaa bint Saud,[1] Jebel Buhais and Buraimi.

[2] The first find of Hafit era tombs is attributed to the Danish archaeologist PV Glob in 1959, and the first of many excavations of these took place a few years later.

[3] Located in the area south of the city of Al Ain, the Jebel Hafeet Desert Park contains the original necropolis of Hafit Graves which led to the naming of this period in the human history of the emirates.

The Al Ain Oasis, in particular, provides evidence of construction and water management enabling the early development of agriculture for five millennia, up until the present day.

[3] Evidence of trading links with Mesopotamia are also found in the subsequent Umm Al Nar and Wadi Suq periods of UAE history.

An unrestored beehive tomb from the Hafit period at Jebel Hafeet , on the border of the U.A.E. and Oman . Most of the hundreds of tombs to be found at the eastern foothills of the mountain have collapsed.