Al BustÃÂn () is a village in Muscat, in eastern Oman (23ð34'15.02"; 58ð36'32.70"E, 8 m altitude). Its cemetery was used during the Samad Late Iron Age.
Overview
In 1991 the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture became aware of the cemetery, close to the Al-Bustan Palace.
In the same year a team from the German Mining Museum in Bochum excavated seven graves.
Sources
- Paul Yule, Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte (2001), Taf. 482-500 .https://web.archive.org/web/20070928191921/http://vml-verlag.de/e/detail.php?ISBN=3-89646-634-8
- Paul Yule, Cross-roads â Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, 89
- Paul A. Yule, Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 31âÂÂ71.
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