Beehive tombs at Al Ayn
(with Djebel Misht in the background)
The Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn are a group of necropolises from the 3rd Millennium BC, located near a palm grove. They were declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1988.
A beehive tomb (domed tomb), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones. The resulting structure resembles a beehive, hence the traditional English name.
