JULFAR - TELL OF KUSH

Occupied by the man from the th to the th century, this mound has not finished delivering its secrets, but historians think that they found there the original site of Julfar, the city «lost» with the scent of legend that is born, this after the displacement of the city a little further, the great navigator Ahmed Bin Majid, a teammate of Vasco da Gama (see in this respect the documentary. Mauricien Khal Torabully, The Maritime Memory of the!). A wall and a tower of the sassanide era (th century) were excavated. Pottery and Indian and Chinese jewellery appeared; coffee beans, dated th century, attest to a very ancient consumption of the beverage.