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Emirates Post and ADACH issue a postage stamp on Umm Al-Nar
Abu Dhabi, July 13, 2009 (WAM) - The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), in collaboration with Emirates Post, issued a set of commemorative stamps of three categories to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Umm Al-Nar's civilization.
The event comes as part of the implementation of ADACH strategy of caring for the UAE's tangible and intangible heritage, achieving the desired objectives from Abu Dhabi's growing cultural project and highlighting the originality of the country's history.
This era was called The Umm Al-Nar Civilization in relation to the place, which is Umm Al-Nar, where it was discovered for the first time near Abu Dhabi. It dates back to the second half of the third millennium BC. Many archaeological sites belonging to this period were discovered in the inland and coastal areas of the UAE.
Umm Al-Nar Civilization was discovered in 1959 following the archaeological excavation carried out by a Danish team. Further excavations were carried out by archaeologists, which led to the discovery of archaeological evidence that has significantly contributed to shed light on the culture and way of life of UAE's first inhabitants.
Between 2500 and 2000 BC the island's inhabitants worked in fishing and smelting copper and reached Mesopotamia and the valley of Sind in trading.
The island's first inhabitants established relatively extended settlements. Archaeologists unearthed a cemetery of 50 tombs built above the ground. Some of these tombs have a rounded shape and are divided into chambers that accessible through small entrances. Every chamber was designed to accommodate several bodies. The tombs, in the form of domes, were built by stones, some of which were used in restoring many tombs in the 1970s. The circular walls of the big buildings were decorated with inscriptions and engravings representing animals such as oryxes, camels, bulls and snakes.
Numerous activities of the island's first inhabitants could be identified thanks to the tools that were unearthed in the settlement and graveyards, including personal adornment such as necklaces, jewellery and golden hairpins as well as copper weapons and imported clay tools, which were skilfully made and adorned with minute drawings. Fishing lines and nets showed the inhabitants' reliance on the sea as a food source. It appears that the dugong or seals were abundant at that time due to the discovery of many of their bones among other organic materials that have been found in the site.
Surveys and archaeological works discovered new sites, dating back to Umm Al-Nar's era, which are located between Hili and Umm Al-Nar Island.
Among these is the island of Ghanadha, which is located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The settlement discovered in Ghanadha indicates that the inhabitants primarily lived on fishing. Since then, other emerging evidence suggested that this civilisation expanded in other places of the UAE. In 1986, two burials were uncovered in Al-Muwaihat in Ajman, which were unearthed by Al-Ain's Archaeological Office.
A settlement site from the Umm Al-Nar period was also discovered at the village of Bidya north of Fujairah. In the last few years, other sites dating back to the Umm Al-Nar period were discovered in different parts of the UAE such as Shamal in Ras Al Khaimah, Al-Dur in Umm Al Qaiwain, Al-Sofouh in Dubai and Maliha in Sharjah.
Fifty years after this important archaeological discovery, the search is still going on in every corner of Abu Dhabi, underneath the sand, on every piece of flint or pottery that are rooted in hundreds of years to tell the story of an ancient civilisation beckons the human history.
Abu Dhabi officials played a major role in facilitating the tasks of researchers and scientists in the identifying civil components of the place. There was early correspondence between Abu Dhabi authorities and Mosgaard Museum in Denmark to explore Umm Al-Nar Island, which resulted in the archaeological works being carried out by the Danish team, thus unveiling this great discovery. -
The event comes as part of the implementation of ADACH strategy of caring for the UAE's tangible and intangible heritage, achieving the desired objectives from Abu Dhabi's growing cultural project and highlighting the originality of the country's history.
This era was called The Umm Al-Nar Civilization in relation to the place, which is Umm Al-Nar, where it was discovered for the first time near Abu Dhabi. It dates back to the second half of the third millennium BC. Many archaeological sites belonging to this period were discovered in the inland and coastal areas of the UAE.
Umm Al-Nar Civilization was discovered in 1959 following the archaeological excavation carried out by a Danish team. Further excavations were carried out by archaeologists, which led to the discovery of archaeological evidence that has significantly contributed to shed light on the culture and way of life of UAE's first inhabitants.
Between 2500 and 2000 BC the island's inhabitants worked in fishing and smelting copper and reached Mesopotamia and the valley of Sind in trading.
The island's first inhabitants established relatively extended settlements. Archaeologists unearthed a cemetery of 50 tombs built above the ground. Some of these tombs have a rounded shape and are divided into chambers that accessible through small entrances. Every chamber was designed to accommodate several bodies. The tombs, in the form of domes, were built by stones, some of which were used in restoring many tombs in the 1970s. The circular walls of the big buildings were decorated with inscriptions and engravings representing animals such as oryxes, camels, bulls and snakes.
Numerous activities of the island's first inhabitants could be identified thanks to the tools that were unearthed in the settlement and graveyards, including personal adornment such as necklaces, jewellery and golden hairpins as well as copper weapons and imported clay tools, which were skilfully made and adorned with minute drawings. Fishing lines and nets showed the inhabitants' reliance on the sea as a food source. It appears that the dugong or seals were abundant at that time due to the discovery of many of their bones among other organic materials that have been found in the site.
Surveys and archaeological works discovered new sites, dating back to Umm Al-Nar's era, which are located between Hili and Umm Al-Nar Island.
Among these is the island of Ghanadha, which is located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The settlement discovered in Ghanadha indicates that the inhabitants primarily lived on fishing. Since then, other emerging evidence suggested that this civilisation expanded in other places of the UAE. In 1986, two burials were uncovered in Al-Muwaihat in Ajman, which were unearthed by Al-Ain's Archaeological Office.
A settlement site from the Umm Al-Nar period was also discovered at the village of Bidya north of Fujairah. In the last few years, other sites dating back to the Umm Al-Nar period were discovered in different parts of the UAE such as Shamal in Ras Al Khaimah, Al-Dur in Umm Al Qaiwain, Al-Sofouh in Dubai and Maliha in Sharjah.
Fifty years after this important archaeological discovery, the search is still going on in every corner of Abu Dhabi, underneath the sand, on every piece of flint or pottery that are rooted in hundreds of years to tell the story of an ancient civilisation beckons the human history.
Abu Dhabi officials played a major role in facilitating the tasks of researchers and scientists in the identifying civil components of the place. There was early correspondence between Abu Dhabi authorities and Mosgaard Museum in Denmark to explore Umm Al-Nar Island, which resulted in the archaeological works being carried out by the Danish team, thus unveiling this great discovery. -
