The Department of Antiquities and Museums began excavations in Shimal area earlier this month in cooperation with a Dutch team to understand one of the largest settlement and Stability operations in the prehistoric period in the Arabian Peninsula. The excavation and study process came in the framework of the Beatrice de Capri research grant.
His Excellency Ahmed Obaid Al Tunaiji said that the department hosts a number of specialized teams to enrich the side of exploration, research and studies by scientific methods and modern methodologies alongside the archeologists in the department. And the idea of hosting number of specialized teams is to include a number of important archaeological sites, including the settlement of Shaml
Ahmed Hilal, director of the Department of Antiquities in the department, said that the objectives of the research are to form a better understanding of the history of settlement in the area including both Bronze and Iron Age and to link them with what we have in the records of human remains and records of ground surface.
Hilal added, "The study aims to answer some questions, such as the possibility of settlement transfer from the hills at the end of the Bronze Age / Iron Age, to the plain lands in the second Iron Age, and the possibility that the suq area dates back to the second Iron Age."