SHIMAL NECROPOLIS

Some 250 graves, including two circulars of the time Umm year-Nar (2600-2000 BC), were excavated by British and German archaeologists. The first meeting, with an initial diameter of 14,5 m and 3 m high, housed over 400 bodies under a flat roof. The second, slightly smaller, had to contain only about people. In fact, when the funeral rooms carved in the structure were full, the bodies were extracted and incinerated, the ashes then returned to the inside. Evidence of the practices in the bronze age at the foot of the (Mountains, this necropolis of Umm year-Nar culture has also delivered invaluable treasures in the form of copper needles, pottery, flèches and perles perles of Harappa (Indus). About 300 m on the track after the second circular falls, taking to the left, we will reach an astonishing cemetery of the Wadi Suq era (2000-1600 BC), comprising hundreds of tombs of digital or oval forms.