Umm an-Nar tomb from the Bronze Age at the Mleiha Archaeological Centre, Sharjah. All photos by Chris Whiteoak / The National
The entrance to the Mleiha Archaeological Centre in Sharjah
Follow the signs to the Mleiha Archaeological Centre in Sharjah
A showcase of the baliya practice, in which people buried the dead along with a camel or a horse or both (mostly the animals they owned) in a senate grave
The in-house cafe at Sharjah's Mleiha Archaeological Centre
A tombstone featuring bi-lingual funerary inscription in Aramaic and ancient South Arabian script
The palace site
A fossil ammonite, 66 million years old
The Faya cave site
The Faya cave site at the Mleiha Archaeological Centre
Learn more about the Faya cave site at the Mleiha Archaeological Centre
Spot Arabian sand gazelle as you take a tour of the Mleiha Archaeological Centre site
An active archaeological dig site
A utahraptor claw, 70 million years old
A tyrannosaurus tooth, 68 million years old
A fossilised bird, 44 million years old
A velociraptor skeleton, 90 million years old
A close-up of the Umm an-Nar tomb
Children can try making their own fossils with these moulds
A gastropod found in UAE seas
A fossil gastropod from Mleiha, 68 million years old
A scenography of the Iron Age rock shelter grave BHS-30 at Jebal al-Buhais
Stone tools, 10,000 years old on display
The Mleiha Archaeological Centre is just another reason to visit Sharjah
