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Mleiha, Bronze Age Tombs at Jebel Faya, Tombs, FAY- NE15 - This Neolithic…
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Tombs
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Jebel Faya is also home to a number of Stone-Age sites, including FAY-NE 1, 9, 11, 10 and 15
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About Umm-An-Nar Tomb-
Close to the Mleiha archeological centre lies the Um-An-Nar Tomb which is considered to be the most impressive grave building among the many ancient funeral sites in Mleiha. Constructed around 2300 BCE the burial site was used approximately for 200 years!
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FAY- NE15 - This Neolithic site is located at the entrance to the first large wadi which comes down near the northern end of Jebel Faya. Originally discovered in the 1980s by a group of French archaeologists, the site was previously called P15.
FAY-NE 10-A small cave located 200m above sea level on the north-eastern slope of Jebel Faya, around 300m south-west of FAY-NE15. Initial exploration of the site uncovered around 1m of sediment which contained Iron and Bronze Age finds, including a human skeleton. Later excavation revealed that FAY-NE10 was also used by Neolithic people from the early seventh into the fifth millennium BCE.
FAY-NE 1- A hugely important archaeological site as it provides valuable information on the early history of mankind. At present it is the earliest site outside of Africa where stone tools produced by ‘Anatomically Modern Humans’ (AMH) have been found. The tools found at FAY-NE1 were made 130,000 years ago, indicating that AMH had left East Africa earlier than previously thought.