ADIAS Press releases and Press coverage - 2003

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3 January 2003

Website adds new section on date cultivation (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

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)

New finds at Abu Dhabi airport archaeological site (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

6 January 2003

First Stone Age Flints found in Abu Dhabi (Source: Gulf News)

8 January 2003



8 million year old elephant tusk discovered (Source: Al Bayan - in Arabic)

Fossil tusk stuns experts (Source: Gulf News)

Largest elephant tusk found (Source: Khaleej Times)

Ancient elephant tusk found near Ruwais (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

Abu Dhabi: 2,54 Meter langer Stoßzahn gefunden (Source: der Standard , Austria - in German)

Encontrada presa de elefante de 6 milhões de anos (Source: terra.com.br, Brazil - in Portugese)

Hallan colmillo gigante de elefante de 6 millones años (Source: 24horas.cl, Chile - in Spanish)

Sechs Millionen Jahre alter Elefantenstoßzahn entdeckt (Source: wissenschaft-online, Germany - in German)

V OAE Naiden Biveni slona, zhivego 8 million let nazad (Source: Grani, Russia - in Russian)

Descubren colmillo gigante de elefante de más seis millones años (Source: Union Radio, Venezuela - in Spanish)

9 January 2003

Stegotetrabelodon syrticus` Zahn (Source: Nebelpfade.de - in German)

Hatmillió éves oselefántagyar az Egyesült Arab Emírségekben (Source: Origo - in Hungarian)

17 January 2003

Scientists thrilled by jumbo-sized discovery (Source: Northern Echo, UK)

Archaeologists taken to tusk (Source: This is York, UK)

18-19 January 2003



Article about the discovery of the fossil elephant tusk in Ruwais (Source: Al Quds Al Arabi, Vol.14, issue 4250 - in Arabic)

1 February 2003

Giant tusk found in desert - [ download as jpg files: cover & page 2 ] (Source: University of York magazine)



5 February 2003

Ancient Elephant Tusk Found Near Ruwais (Source: Takreer News - Special Issue: Takreer and the Environment - Issue No. 39, February 2003)
[ download as jpg files: cover - article (in English) or cover - article (in Arabic) ]

1 March 2003

York University, ADIAS collaborative study (Source: Capital Letter Vol.4 Issue 4 Spring 2003, page 6 - British Business Group Abu Dhabi magazine)
[ download as jpg files: cover page - page 6 ]

1 April 2003

Paléontologie - Jolie défense - read an article written by Bernadette Arnaud which appeared in the French popular science magazine Sciences et Avenir No. 674, April 2003 - page 13.

4 April 2003

Al Ain seminar showcases archaeological excavations (Source: Khaleej Times)

8 May 2003

Back in the Day - feature article in Time Out - Abu Dhabi magazine about ADIAS work on Miocene fossils at Ruwais.
[ download as jpg files: cover page - page 1 - page 14 - page 15 ]

11 June 2003

ADIAS completes mapping Abu Dhabi treasure island (Source: Gulf News)

20 June 2003

A window to Abu Dhabi's fascinating past (Source: Gulf News)
A window to Abu Dhabi's fascinating past (Source: ERWDA)

24 June 2003

A window to Abu Dhabi's fascinating past and The Top Sites of ADIAS (Source: uaeinteract.com)

1 July 2003

Giant tusk found in desert - read an article which appeared in the spring/summer 2003 edition of Grapevine, the Alumni magazine of the University of York

3 August 2003

Who lived here before we came? (Source: uaeinteract.com)

4 August 2003

Reports on archaeological finds in UAE released (Source: Gulf News)
Reports on archaeological finds in UAE released (Source: uaeinteract.com)

30 August 2003

Exotic Sir Bani Yas beckons all - article by Muawia E. Ibrahim (Source: Khaleej Times)

10 October 2003

A Plunge into the Past - article by Anjana Sankar (Source: Khaleej Times)
[ download original article as jpg files: contents - page 30 - 31 - 32 ]

18 October 2003

When Rivers ran through Ancient Arabia by Patricia Groves and Windows that Open to the Past by Aruna Shaji
(Source: Oman Observer)


1 December 2003

"More help from TAKREER - More work on fossil finds" - Read an article in TAKREER News Issue No. 49 - December 2003 about how TAKREER has sponsored the work carried out on fossils at the Ruwais site
[ download entire newsletter (pdf 1.18 MB) - english version - arabic version - or download just the relevant pages as jpeg image files english version - arabic version ]

9 December 2003

Ancient Elephant Footprints discovered in Abu Dhabi's Western Region - part 1 and part 2 (Source: WAM)

10 December 2003

Ancient Elephant Footprints discovered in Abu Dhabi's Western Region (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

Elephant footprints discovered in Western Abu Dhabi (Source: Khaleej Times)

Fossilised footprints of elephants discovered (Source: Gulf News)

(Source: Al Bayan)

(Source: Al Fajr)

(Source: Al Ittihad)

(Source: Al Khaleej)

13 December 2003

Jumbo prints lead to giant elephant (Source: Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
[ download original article as jpg files: whole article - text - top - bottom ]

16 December 2003

New book on Jebel Dhanna sulphur mines launched (Source: Uaeinteract.com)

Tracing the history of mining (Source: Gulf News)

New book on Jebel Dhanna sulphur mines launched - part 1 - part 2 (Source: WAM)

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