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Al Ain, the ‘Garden City’

The modern state of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have been founded as recently as 1971, when its seven emirates were unified, but evidence from excavations in the city of Al Ain reveals a history dating back many millennia.

An inland city in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, Al Ain sits on the border with Oman, near the northern fringes of the

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