His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai visited the Jumeirah Archaeological Site which was discovered in the year 1969 when the Dubai Municipality began excavating the treasures of this site, which dates back to the ninth century AD, that is, in the Abbasid era where it was a stop And a break for commercial convoys transiting between Iraq and the Sultanate of Oman and from there to India and the Republic of China.
His Highness, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, stopped at the beginning of his visit to the site in the visitors' museum, the museum, which includes among its sides pictures, sculptures, pottery and coins discovered on the site. His Highness and his companions from Mahra Saif Al Mansoori, excavator of antiquities in the Dubai Municipality, got acquainted with the history of each piece of antiquities found and their importance in terms of defining the history of the site, its secrets and potentials and the importance of the region to commercial caravans in that era.
His Highness made a field tour around the site that has an area of about eighty thousand square meters and witnessed the ruins of the buildings that were used as housing and rest houses, and the number of eight buildings most of them - with the exception of the mosque building - are regular in their engineering form attached to them small rectangular rooms and an open courtyard containing a family enlightenment and a center of activities Like baking, grinding, and cooking, the buildings are all constructed with sandstones and fixed with plaster and also covered with plaster, inside and outside.
The buildings include one housing of 480 square meters, it is rectangular and is built in two stages and is decorated with two circular towers.
The second building, Al Souk, which then played a major role in society, and the remains of its building attest to the development of Dubai and its role as a commercial center in the region. The interior design of the market is characterized by a walkway that separates the two main buildings and each building consists of small stores and has a storage room.
As for the third building, it is a typical house, built on an area of 103 meters, consisting of five rooms, an open patio, and three ovens for baking, cooking, and corners of the house, supported by small circular towers with a well-known design for that era.
As well as the fourth building, it is a residential house with an area of 120 square meters and includes five rooms and a multi-purpose exterior patio and a tandoor with three entrances and built on foundations built of different stones and was built in two phases.
Among the eight buildings is the "Al-Khan" building, which is one of the largest and most beautiful buildings on the site and extends over an area estimated to be one square kilometer and reflects the traditional design of the Abbasid era architecture and is a meeting place for traders and travelers to rest and relax from the hassle of traveling. The building has an open central courtyard surrounded by residential rooms and has two main entrances on the eastern and western sides .
There is also a large housing building and is considered the most beautiful residential building constructed in Islamic style, such as arches, columns and gypsum facades with geometric decoration. The house consists of two separate buildings connected by an open courtyard and each building has a separate entrance.
As for the building of the mosque, it is different in its design from the rest of the buildings of the site, it is a building in the form of a square measuring 49 square meters and has a mihrab in the qibla wall "towards the Holy Kaaba" in addition to murals indicating our master Muhammad, peace be upon him, and confirming that it is the major major mosque in The region was a mosque for worshipers a thousand years ago.
The eighth residential building is rectangular in shape, with a length of more than nine meters and a width of about nine meters. It consists of six rooms and has four entrances. It is built on sandy ground without solid foundations to protect it from collapse. The wall thickness is 40 cm.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum expressed his admiration and pride in the history and civilization of our country and the strategic location occupied by the UAE in general and the city of Dubai in particular on the map of the world, ancient and modern.
Watching the excavations carried out by excavators and excavators of antiquities from the youth of the homeland, His Highness said: "I am happy with you guys and proud of your difficult and delicate work that needs patience and skill in working in search of the biography of the ancestors and parents rooted in this given land and documenting the immortal history of our region. And adhering to our authentic Arab identity and linking our honorable past to our hopeful present, which was rooted in the land, leading to the achievement of a hopeful future. "
His Highness added: "We are looking in the past to explore its treasures and potentials and salute the heritage to revive the memory of our people and preserve it from extinction, so that it remains a witness to our past and our human and cognitive values, and to revive the energies and ideas of our youth and their creativity and employ them in the service of the country and uphold its flag and deepen the spirit of national belonging to young people and successive generations."
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at the end of his tour of the site’s land - which is one of the most important and largest Islamic sites discovered so far in the region and reflects the Abbasid architecture as it reflects the prosperity and relative prosperity of the site’s population during that period - commended the efforts of a municipal working group Dubai and their perseverance in exploring everything that comes to our ancient past and highlighting it as a witness to the region's civilization, the nobility of its people, its originality and humanity.
His Highness instructed those concerned in the Dubai Municipality, Tourism and Commercial Marketing departments to open the doors of the site to tourists, visitors and citizens, especially schoolchildren, to get to know the civilization of a thousand-year-old people.
His Highness was accompanied on the tour .. His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Aviation Authority, Supreme President of the Emirates Airlines Group, His Excellency Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Deputy Chief of Police and Public Security, His Excellency Mohammed Ahmed Al Murr, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union Museum, and His Excellency Jamal bin Huwaireb, Managing Director and CEO of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge, His Excellency Dawood Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, His Excellency Khalifa Saeed Suleiman, Director General of the Department of Protocol and Hospitality in Dubai, and His Excellency Hilal Saeed Al Marri, Director General of the Department of Tourism and Commercial Marketing in Dubai and a number of officials.