Looking for new facts of the localization of the ancient Sumerian copperland Makan the German Mining Museum proved, that most of the ancient smelting sites in Oman belong to Early Islamic time. In one of the few 3rd millennium B.C. sites the excavation shows the development of a settlement from a preindustrial smelting site to a caravansérail. As the metallurgical finds were so extensive, a reconstruction of the smelting processes was possible. It is shown, that sulfidic ore was mined and smelted in at least 4 stages to matte and was transformed in a crucible to copper. Of special interest is the single find of an arsenic speiss.Cherchant des données nouvelles sur la localisation de l'ancien pays sumérien du cuivre Makan, le Musée Allemand ...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
Technologies do not exist in a vacuum but rather are embedded within a greater social-historical-eco...
Since 2006, a joint mission from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale and the Université de...
The prehistoric civilizations of Oman are strongly connected with the exploitation and the use of co...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
The first industrial revolution in the southern Levant crystallized during the Iron Age when copper ...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
The first industrial revolution in the southern Levant crystallized during the Iron Age when copper ...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
Technologies do not exist in a vacuum but rather are embedded within a greater social-historical-eco...
Since 2006, a joint mission from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale and the Université de...
The prehistoric civilizations of Oman are strongly connected with the exploitation and the use of co...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The Oman Peninsula is a geo-cultural entity organized around the al-Hajjar mountains, which are extr...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
The first industrial revolution in the southern Levant crystallized during the Iron Age when copper ...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
The first industrial revolution in the southern Levant crystallized during the Iron Age when copper ...
The town of Sumhuram was founded by the South Arabian Kingdom of Hadramawt ca. the end of the 3rd ce...
Technologies do not exist in a vacuum but rather are embedded within a greater social-historical-eco...
Since 2006, a joint mission from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale and the Université de...