Zubarah town ruins

Al Shamal · Qatar

Zubarah town ruins, Qatar
Photo: Rafeek Qatar, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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November to March
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The buried remnants of an 18th-century pearling and trading town on Qatar's northwest coast, now a protected archaeological landscape. Excavated walls trace the outline of houses, markets and mosques.

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