The unearthing of these objects gives experts new insight into the Ubaid culture, a period in Arabia which lasted from 5500-4000 B.C. However it isn’t the first time that we have thought ancient ...

Below the sterile layer is Fara I, ‘the Painted Pottery period’, comparable to Jemdet Nasr culture, with suggestions of, but as yet no very definite clue to, the earlier al'Ubaid period.