The skeleton of a three-year-old camel, found buried on its side together with a necklace of soft stone, shell, glass and semi-precious beads, was discovered in a pre-Islamic cemetery near Samad ash Shan. The beads are of late Iron Age provenance (300 BC - AD 793) and testify to the value placed on the camel at this early time.
Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

















