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00:59Dr. Robert Katar is leading the research at Ain Muhammad Excavation Site.
01:05What he and his team have found tells a fascinating story about the area in Qatar's history.
01:11Well, there were definitely people living here, so they were not only undertaking production activities,
01:17they were also living around the factory as well, because we have their food remains in little hearths, you know, cooking places.
01:24In fact, we have evidence from the site that they were growing crops.
01:27So we have a settled population, and they're farming, and they're making textiles.
01:32And they're in Qatar.
01:34In the last 15 years, Ain Muhammad has been one of more than 30 sites identified by Qatar Museum's archaeologists,
01:40giving a glimpse of how life was like in the 19th century.
01:44But more recent findings have indicated that these sites existed way before then,
01:49between the 7th and the 9th century, which was also the time period that witnessed the birth of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula.
01:57Qatar Museums launched the Landscapes of Faith project to trace the intersection of when Christianity and Islam first overlapped.
02:05So far, we haven't found any good evidence either way for whether the people at the sites that were excavating are Christian or Muslim.
02:13But what we have found is some very interesting facts about the activities they were performing,
02:18the lives that they were leading, and the connections they had with the outside world.
02:22After two excavation seasons, Dr. Carter and his team have collected a few pieces that make up the human history puzzle.
02:31We have a complete grinding stone, two halves of a rotary quern, we call it, still together in position, which is very unusual.
02:40We have several finds relating to textile production.
02:43We have spindle whorls, which are weights, and we have spindles, brass rods, which are used to spin.
02:49So we believe they were producing wool on this site.
02:52Here we've got a very nicely made basin with a nice lip, gypsum plaster,
02:56and a drainage hole going through into a pit on the other side.
03:00And the pits where these basins empty out tend to be filled with this ashy, ashy sediment,
03:07which is one of the reasons we believe that they were washing something, probably a fleece, in ashy water to clean it.
03:12Among the finds was also this, the skeletal remains of a small dog in one of the rooms.
03:19While it's yet to be dated, it could indicate domestication of pets or perhaps the owning of sheepdogs.
03:25Every year, the museum holds an open day.
03:29It's a chance for the public to experience, explore, and learn about the excavation site.
03:35We have a group of people that can excavate with us.
03:38They can sieve the finds and the spoil that we find.
03:42They can wash pottery.
03:44They can take some photography.
03:46So it's a very hands-on day.
03:49Connecting with archaeology provides you a sense of identity and connects Qatar to the rest of the world.
03:55Angie Altam grew up watching Indiana Jones movies, so signing up to such an opportunity was a no-brainer.
04:02It was my first time here and I found it fascinating, just digging, finding, and all these.
04:09And there is a very ancient and vibrant history in Qatar.
04:13Beginner's luck was on her side as Angie found a piece of broken pottery that looks like what the archaeologists are looking for.
04:21The team thinks they've only scratched the surface at Ain Mohamed
04:24and are hopeful that future digs will bring them more artifacts to help solve the mystery of Qatar's earliest dwellers.
04:32Preserving ancient sites is one important aspect of making sure past civilizations don't get lost through the ages.
04:46But so is spreading the knowledge to future generations.
04:50I'm here at Masharib Museums in the heart of Doha to meet General Manager Abdullah Al-Nama,
04:57who gives us an insight to the museum's role in keeping Qatar's heritage alive.
05:02Mr. Abdullah, thank you so much for having us here today.
05:07I wanted to start first with where we are.
05:11This is the Mohamed bin Jassim House.
05:13What is the historical and cultural significance of this building?
05:17Mohamed bin Jassim is one of our four museums here at Masharib Museums.
05:22Mohamed bin Jassim is very significant to the downtown Masharib.
05:26It covers the history of Masharib as an area.
05:29Plus, it explains the seven steps that the new architecture language that the city was built upon,
05:37how it was established.
05:38And it's also a testimonial of the education that here in downtown Masharib properties,
05:45we are trying to spread the knowledge of building a smart and sustainable city to the younger generation.
05:50And there are a few other historical houses that make up Masharib Museums.
05:55Can you tell us more about those buildings?
05:57We have as well Beit bin Julmut, which is the first and only museum in the world
06:03that talks about the story of slavery in the Indian Ocean world.
06:06And also we have the Company House, which is a museum that focuses on the Qatari pioneers
06:11who were working in the oil industry.
06:13The fourth museum is Ravwani House.
06:16Ravwani House is a prototype of the old Qatari houses, pre-oil and post-oil.
06:21The four museums, the four stories, actually it's a social and economical study
06:26of the history of Qatari the past 100, 120 years.
06:30So what are the ongoing outreach programs that you have at the museum right now?
06:37When Masharib museums, maybe it's not your traditional kind of museum.
06:41You focus a lot on the narrative.
06:42It's a narrative storytelling museum, more than artifact-based museum.
06:47For example, we have a bimonthly, very active program, which is the Science Cafe,
06:54in collaboration with Cedra, for example.
06:56We have a research program with Hamad bin Khalifa University.
06:59So we try to diverse our offering because lots of initiatives happening here in Kabul.
07:06And finally, how do you see Masharib museums continuing to stay relevant as the world modernizes?
07:12I think it's very important, especially through programming, to be relevant within the community.
07:20As long as the programs and the initiatives that we keep organizing are part of what interests people,
07:28I think this will make museums relevant to the evolving and changing communities.
07:33At the end of the day, our role is not only to showcase history, but also to be part of history.
07:45From forgotten worlds under Qatar's sands to treasure troughs in its coastal waters,
07:50Joanna Hoos gets her hands and feet wet at the Al-Zubara archaeological site
07:54to explore Qatari history submerged in the Arabian Gulf.
07:59At first glance, this beach on Qatar's northwestern coast might not seem all that remarkable.
08:06But dig a little deeper, literally and figuratively, and hidden under the glistening waters,
08:11you will find traces of a bygone era, remnants of the ancient coastal town of Al-Zubara,
08:16a settlement that was once at the heart of Qatar's pearl trade.
08:20Today's dive in Al-Zubara's past is organized by Qatar museums and UNESCO in collaboration with Seashore and the Poseidon Dive Center.
08:45The open day offers curious minds from Qatar's diving community a rare chance to get hands-on
08:52and learn how to uncover, document and preserve the country's underwater cultural heritage.
08:57We are at a day of the day of the island in the Al-Zubara, but with a research on the coastal coastal waters,
09:04and the coastal coastal waters in the village of the river in the recent recent season.
09:08One of the things we do is to show us that the water-accessed waters,
09:15the sea-tube, the sea-tube, the sea-tube, the sea-tube, which is a commonplace,
09:19whether the sea-tube or the sea-tube, or the sea-tube.
09:22Bu yalışanına geçti.
09:25Bu yalışanla geliştirilmiştir.
09:30Bugün her zamanlarca göre bir şey sebeştirmek için
09:33ve nasıl ufasın dağımızın nabariy ile bir şey var.
09:37Bu yalışanla ilgili bir şey,
09:39de pozisyonlumında...
09:41yalışıkta bir konusu ile işaret ve katır üretimlerimizin
09:44schonaktağımızla pewne bir bir şeyde girebiliy Bowranın.
09:48Azubarra'a da
09:55korumaklar ve kültürlük
09:58kültürlük
10:00Azubarra'a ilk arkeologi
10:03arkaosulukaların
10:05ve UNESCO World Heritage
10:072020.
10:09Bu sayede
10:10heritede
10:11buta sadece
10:12tüm tüm
10:13ülke
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11:16It's about understanding human behaviour and the valuable lessons the past can teach us for the future.
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