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National Museum of Ras al-Khaimah.

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The British Academy.

National Bank of Ras al-Khaimah

The British Museum

Department of Archaeology, University of Durham.

A Parthian, Sasanian and early-Islamic tell in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, UAE.

Kush is an archaeological tell in the Shimal area of Ras al-Khaimah. It contains an occupation sequence dating from around the first century AD through to the end of the 13th century AD.

An aerial view of the site.

Since 1995 excavations have been undertaken as a collaboration between the Department of Antiquities and Musuems of Ras al-Khaimah and a British team now based at the University of Durham, Department of Archaeology.

The aim is to excavate a quantified sequence through the mound in order to understand the economic and cultural changes that took place in this part of Arabia in the pre and early Islamic period.

A fractional dinar of Umar bin Yusuf al-Wajihi datable to the mid 10th century AD (mid 4th century hijra) found at Kush.

The present excavation project will come to an end in 1999/2000. For a recently-published outline of the work and a description of the site see:

Kennet, D. Kush: a Sasanian and Islamic-period archaeological tell in Ras al-Khaimah (U.A.E.). Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 8, (1997), pp. 284-302 .

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