Abu Dhabi International Airport

Location of Abu Dhabi International Airport (Source: ADIAS)

Images

View a 7000 year old Late Stone Age triangular scraper and flint scraper (Quicktime required) from the Abu Dhabi Airport archaeological site (via the external website, the Virtual Museum on the http://www.uaeinteract.com/ website, produced by Trident Press).

Press

9 July 1995 - New archaeological discoveries at Abu Dhabi Airport (Source: Al Ittihad - in Arabic)

4 August 1997 - Duty Free to support archaeology project (Source: www.uaeinteract.com)

7 May 2002 - New Finds prove importance of Abu Dhabi Airport Archaeological Site (Source: ADIAS press release)

7 May 2002 - New Finds prove importance of AD Airport Archaeological Site (Source: www.uaeinteract.com).

8 May 2002 - More Late Stone Age artefacts found (Source: Gulf News)

8 May 2002 - New light on archaeological sites (Source: Khaleej Times)

4 January 2003 - New finds at Airport Archaeological Site - part 1 - part 2 (Source: WAM)

5 January 2003 - Article in Arabic about the Airport archaeological site (Source: Al Ittihad - in Arabic)

6 January 2003 - First stone age flints found in Abu Dhabi (Source: Gulf News)

Publications

Beech, M., K. Cooper and H. Kallweit. 2003. Archaeology at the Al Ghazal Golf Club. ADIAS, Abu Dhabi. [ to download a copy of this leaflet in Acrobat .pdf format click here (185 Kb) ] .

Beech, M., H. Kallweit and P. Hellyer. 2004. New archaeological investigations at Abu Dhabi Airport, United Arab Emirates. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 34: 1-15.
[ to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format click here (2.94 MB) ] .

Cardi, B. de. 1997. Third Millennium and Later Pottery from Abu Dhabi Airport. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 8: 161-173.
[ to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format click here (802 Kb) ] .

Kallweit, H. 2004. Lithics from the Emirates: the Abu Dhabi Airport sites. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 34: 139-145.
[ to download this article in Acrobat .pdf format click here (540 Kb) ] .

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