16:4916:49, 10 April 2023diffhist+254
Granulation (jewellery)
<ref> Paul Yule, Gold beads of the Samad Late Iron Age, Sultanate of Oman, in: I.V. Zaitsev (ed.), Arabian antiquities studies dedicated to Alexander Sedov on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Moscow, 2020, 285–294, ISBN 978-5-6044950-5-6</ref>
17 December 2022
19:2719:27, 17 December 2022diffhist+363
Pre-Islamic Arab trade
→((anchor|The Middle Ages|The Age of Jahiliyyah))Africa: Late Antique to medieval trade amphorae contained different food stuffs including wine and olivre oil, perhaps the best known are so-called Aqaba/Ayla vessels from the Red Sea to South Asia. <ref>Paul A. Yule, ''An ʿAqaba/Ayla-type amphora in the Sultanate of Oman'', Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, 2022, pp. 1‒9, https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12222 .</ref>
07:2207:22, 12 September 2022diffhist+357
Talk:Geography of Oman
primary source the temperature of Masirah, Khasab, Saiq, Buraimi, Thamrait, Salalah, Muscat, Seeb, Sur and Suhar are published in F. Scholz, Landeskundliche Übersicht, in: A. Hottinger et al. (eds.) Oman Weihrauch and Erdöl..., Lucern: Strom, 92-94, ISBN 3-85921-074-2 ~~~~
17:3117:31, 31 August 2022diffhist+254
Al Hoota Cave
→External links: <ref>FLEITMANN, D., J. Haldon, R. Bradley, S. Burns, Hai Cheng, R. Edwards, C. Raible, M. Jacobson, A. Matter 2022. Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late antique Arabia, Science 376, 1317–21.</ref>
15:4815:48, 31 August 2022diffhist+564
Talk:Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
== Coin of the Himyarite Kingdom == The coin which is depicted in this article is of Munro Hay's type 1.13i-iv "Imitation New Style Athenian issue" (Coinage of Arabia Felix the pre-Islamic coinage of the Yemen. Nomismata 5, Milan, 2003, 135-7). This issue is not a good notwithstanding the BM cited provenance, and myself would risk a Sabaean provenance for it. Why not instead take a coin from the Raydan series (probably struck in Paydan palace) which is more clearly Himyarite? ~~~~
15:2215:22, 31 August 2022diffhist+234
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
→Date and authorship: This dating corresponds with the argumentation of L. Casson ("between A.D. 40 and 70") in his key book The Periplus Maris Erythraei text with introduction, translation and commentary ((sfnp|Casson|1989|loc=p. xvi & notes on pp. 6-7))
18:1118:11, 15 April 2022diffhist+652
Talk:Aqaba
Aqaba/Ayla as an ancient trade port: There is considerable information. Food is a major trade item and in recent years so-called Aqaba-Ayla late Roman amphorae have appeared in a wide range of places: Red seas littoral, Eretrian & Ethiopian sites, those in Western India and now a new one in Oman. Source: M. Raith – R. Hoffbauer – H. Euler – P. Yule – K. Damgaard, The view from Ẓafār – an archaeometric study of the Aqaba late Roman period pottery complex and distribution in the 1st millennium CE,
30 March 2022
07:1607:16, 30 March 2022diffhist+433
Talk:Pre-Islamic Arabia
As an outsider to Wiki and Arabia expert, I find the comments to this article to contain a mixture of facts and polemic. Briefly, Wiki articles are not supposed to be a reflection of given faith or belief, but rather of fact. Special interest comments are evident. South-eastern Arabia also belongs to Arabia, but is not represented in the article. ~~~~
23:0223:02, 17 January 2022diffhist+491
Talk:Honey
Adulteration: Arguably, this aspect is too brief: Honey punching is a legal major business. Labels such as "from European sources" are hopelessly vague. Articles appear which stress the dumping of Chinese early harvested honey on the market. Most of the honey in the supermarket is of dubious, that is mixed, origin. When honey crosses a border it often is heated which denatures its nutritional chemistry. ~~~~
11:5011:50, 24 December 2021diffhist+777
Talk:Magan (civilization)
The use of the term "Oman" in the text is ahistoric and misleading: Traditional Oman (above the 22nd parallel, today's north-western, north-eastern and eastern provinces) differs from the Sultanate of Oman which formed politically in the subrecent to recent periods. Dhofar is neither a part of the early sultanate nor prior to this. ~~~~
11:3011:30, 24 December 2021diffhist+293
Talk:Magan (civilization)
Regarding Frankincense harvested and from Dhofar province, this has nothing whatever to do with Magan/Makkan. In one of the main articles on the so-called Lower Sea cuneiform texts, Frankincense never occurs at all: W. Heimpel, Das Untere Meer, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 77, 1987, 22-91.
11:0311:03, 4 April 2021diffhist+320 m
Talk:St John Philby
Philby's travels in Arabia are invisible in the article, especially when compared to his bibliography. Other Arabia explorers, such as Thomas and Thesiger refer to him in their writings. He is someone to be reckoned with in this context. ~~~~
06:1306:13, 4 April 2021diffhist+316
Wilfred Thesiger
→Travels: <ref name=Thesiger>((cite book |publisher = Allen Lane |isbn = 0713910488 |ol = 13545443M |location = London |title = Arabian Sands |author = Thesiger, Wilfred |date = 1977 |id = 0713910488))</ref>
2 April 2021
04:5504:55, 2 April 2021diffhist+272
Sarat Ubaida Governorate
→References: <ref>Andre Gingrich, Ländliche Sternenkalender aus dem südlichen Hijaz, in: Walter Dostal (ed.), Tribale Gesellschaften der südwestlichen Regionen des Königreiches Saudi Arabia sozialanthropologische Untersuchungen, Vienna, 2006, pp. 407-430, ISBN 3-7001-3598-x</ref>
20 March 2021
19:1419:14, 20 March 2021diffhist+333
Mehri language
<ref>((cite book|title=Die Beduinen in Südarabien. Eine ethnologische Studie zur Entwicklung der Kamelhirtenkultur in Arabien | author=Walter Dostal | publisher=Ferdinand Berger and Söhne OHG | location=Vienna | year=1967 | |page=133 fig. 19</ref>
03:5503:55, 18 November 2020diffhist+334
Talk:Muscat
The historical text should be recast using modern sources which differentiate between the state of research in the mid 19th century and today. Haphasard source selection results in a skewed text. See e.g. D.T. Potts Arabian Gulf in Antiquity, 1990