Sapienza University of Rome Archaeological Mission in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf Area (MASPAG): Archaeological Excavations and Surveys in Wādī Al-Maʿawil 2023-2024

The multidisciplinary research that the Sapienza Archaeological Mission in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf (MASPAG) has been carrying out in the South-Eastern Arabian Peninsula since 2019 thanks to the funding of the University’s Great Excavations and since 2022 to the co-financing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation was also concentrated from 20 October to 20 December 2023 and from 14 October to 20 December 2024, in the province of Wadi Al-Maʿawil, in the Muḥāfaẓat of Ǧanūb Al-Bāṭina (Sultanate of Oman), in a vast alluvial plain west of Nakhal and furrowed by the flow of paleoriverbeds (widyān) that from Afi converge towards the major tributary that reaches the coast, interposed between the eastern slopes of Jebel Akhḍar and the Western Al-Ḥajar chain and the Gap Semail fault.