Email this article Homage to Oman Volume 50 Number 3, May/June 1997 Carpenters work on the wooden hull of a dhow at a shipyard in Sur, a coastal city 210 miles south of Muscat. The advent of fiberglass vessels, which are easier to maintain, has threatened the dhow-building industry here. (Photograph by Nicolas Sapieha) PREVIOUS IMAGE | INTRODUCTION | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | NEXT IMAGE © 1997 by the Archaeological Institute of America www.archaeology.org/9705/etc/captions/oman06.html Share this page:   Share Stay up-to-date on news and new features on our website. Click here to sign up. Buy current & back issues: See what's available!

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