Sharjah Mleiha Archaeological Centre
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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 -
A Neolithic burial -
An amphora jar
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