Researchers from the Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (UW) as well as the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and the National Geological Institute completed a season of archaeological work in northern Oman. The researchers discovered traces of ancient metallurgy and remnants of Bronze and Iron Age settlements.

The archaeological research was focused around the so-called Qumayrah micro-region, where an expedition from the Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the UW, as the first Polish archaeological team in the country, has been working since 2016.

The researchers carried out archaeological and geological field prospecting and probing at ten sites, reports the UW. More than fifty structures from different periods of the Bronze Age (Umm an-Nar and Wadi Suq cultures), several Iron Age structures and dozens of structures from later periods or of undetermined chronology were documented. Among the oldest, dating to the Early Bronze Age, the so-called Umm an-Nar period (c. 2600-2000 BC), are the round stone towers and tower tombs typical of this culture.