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« on: May 30, 2010, 04:32:34 am »

Settlement found under Qatar sand by Lampeter academic

A Welsh academic has revealed how he discovered a Middle East settlement buried under sand for about 125 years.

Dr Andrew Petersen first became aware of a possible settlement after finding masonry and pottery at Ras Al-Sharig in Qatar.

He thought something might be there after reading sources naming a town called Rubayqa.

"But we certainly weren't prepared for the scale of the find," said the expert from the University of Wales, Lampeter.

The haul includes the remains of a fort, a mosque, several industrial and domestic buildings, and 100 kilos of pottery and artefacts.

Among the more unusual discoveries were Indian rupee coins set into the walls of a building believed to have been a mosque, porcelain originating from as far afield as China and Burma, and several date presses, even though dates are impossible to grow in the area.

However, Dr Petersen, a specialist in Islamic archaeology, and the team from the Qatar Museums Authority are more puzzled at what they did not find.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/10148297.stm
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 The archaeologists were not prepared for the scale of their find



 A hoard of 19th Century silver Indian Rupees hidden within a mosque wall
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