Created: Monday, 31 December 2012 13:48

ASWAD PROVINCE, OMANThe Royal Oman Police discovered a 4,000-year-old settlement and cemetery while building a new border check post. Archaeologists and students from Sultan Qaboos University uncovered a brass necklace, daggers, needles, arrow heads, knives, pottery, and beads, in addition to numerous tombs. The area was a center of copper trade between the people of Oman, Delmon, Harappa, and Mesopotamia.