Uqair salt mine (Archaeological site)

Al-Uqair Salt mine is archaeological site located approximately 25Km Northwest of Uqair city in al-Hasa, Eastern Saudi Arabia.

Several remains of building were discovered and mapped by a Danish archaeological group in 1968.

In the site had several shards that are comparable to the types found in Thaj and Hellenistic Bahrain.

[1] Visible remains of the site are scattered and cover an area of 10 square kilometres.

[2] Items found in salt mine site include shell, copper, ceramic and stone items (including pebble, chert, flint, quern and steatite.