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Connected coastal sites, ports, lagoons, and maritime thresholds across the broader littoral world.
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Khor Rori or Sumhuram as per the inscriptions found here, is located 40 km east of Salalah, Oman, on a hilltop on the eastern bank of a sweet-water inlet ( khor) , about 400 metres from the open sea. The remains of th...
The site of Ed-Dur, in the emirate of Umm-al-Quwain, in the present-day United Arab Emirates, lies adjacent to the large Al Beidha lake, a lagoon surrounded by a series of high sand dunes which shields it from direct...