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Wed, 03/04/2009 - 13:19
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Conference on GCC archaeology opens in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, March 4, 2009 (WAM) - The 10th Annual Forum of the Historical and Archaeological Society of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) started today at the Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi.
The conference runs concurrently with the celebrations patronised by Minister of Presidential Affairs HH Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first archaeological excavations in the UAE.
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development is organising a major international conference on Emirates archaeology as part of the celebrations under the theme 'Fifty Years after Umm al-Nar: The Second International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates'.
The Forum chaired by Bilal Al Budoor, Executive Director of Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development was addressed by a number of archeological experts.
Academics from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Italy, India and Japan along with locally-based archaeologists are taking part in the events.
The first archeological excavations were in UAE were carried out on the Umm Al Nar island earlier in 1959.
The conference on Emirates archaeology covers both the history of excavations in the Emirates and the results of recent research, stretching from the earliest days of human occupation, in the Palaeolithic period, over 150,000 years ago, up to the Late Islamic period in the 18th and 19th Centuries AD.
The conference runs concurrently with the celebrations patronised by Minister of Presidential Affairs HH Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first archaeological excavations in the UAE.
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development is organising a major international conference on Emirates archaeology as part of the celebrations under the theme 'Fifty Years after Umm al-Nar: The Second International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates'.
The Forum chaired by Bilal Al Budoor, Executive Director of Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development was addressed by a number of archeological experts.
Academics from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Italy, India and Japan along with locally-based archaeologists are taking part in the events.
The first archeological excavations were in UAE were carried out on the Umm Al Nar island earlier in 1959.
The conference on Emirates archaeology covers both the history of excavations in the Emirates and the results of recent research, stretching from the earliest days of human occupation, in the Palaeolithic period, over 150,000 years ago, up to the Late Islamic period in the 18th and 19th Centuries AD.
