A LARGE storage jar dating back to the Umayyad era has been unearthed in Muharraq.
Described by historians as the ‘most complete jar ever found in Bahrain’, the artefact which is nearly a metre in diameter was dug out from an Islamic settlement.
“It took an international team of archaeologists two days to remove the centuries-old jar and transfer it safely to Bahrain National Museum,” the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities said in a statement last night.
The team had been studying the earliest Islamic settlement more than three metres below the ground surface.
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