Jumeirah Archaeological Site

About Jumeirah Archaeological Site

Archaeological site in the UAE

The Jumeirah Archaeological Site is the most important Islamic-period archaeological site in Dubai, dating to the Abbasid era of the ninth and tenth centuries CE, in the residential district of Jumeirah not far from the coast. It was first excavated in 1969 by the archaeologist Dimitri Baramki and is owned and managed today by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. Excavations revealed the remains of a settlement that served as a station on the caravan route between Iraq and Oman: a mosque, a caravanserai, residential houses and architectural and decorative fragments, along with finds of glazed pottery jars and plates, bronze coins and glass and stone artefacts, showing that the area was inhabited more than a thousand years before modern Dubai arose. The site is not yet regularly open to the public, but simply knowing that an Abbasid town lies beneath the quiet villas of Jumeirah gives visitors a different view of the city's history, and some of its finds are displayed in Dubai's museums.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates