Excavated Late Iron Age graves at al-Bustan, Oman. Left: excavated, right: prior to excavation.Aerial view of excavated Late Iron Age graves at al-Bustan.
Al Bustān (Arabic: البستان) is a village in Muscat, in eastern Oman.[2] (23°34'15.02"; 58°36'32.70"E, 8 m altitude). Its cemetery was used during the Samad Late Iron Age.
In 1991 the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture became aware of the cemetery, close to the Al-Bustan Palace.
In the same year a team from the German Mining Museum in Bochum excavated seven graves.
Sources
Paul Yule, Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte (2001), Taf. 482-500 ISBN3-89646-634-8.[1]
Paul Yule, Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, 89 ISBN978-3-447-10127-1
Paul A. Yule, Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 31‒71.
