Archaeologists digging at Ras al-Junayz, on the eastern most tip of the Arabian peninsula, found that over 20 per cent of objects were of Harappan origin. There are a number of enigmatic beehive ‘tombs’ from this period scattered across Oman. Most of them are in areas that are too arid to sustain a population today but were much wetter in the Bronze Age. The builders of these structures would have almost certainly interacted with visiting Indian merchants.
