Marawaḥ

Marawah is a low island in the shallow waters of the southern Persian Gulf, west of Abu al Abyad. Its shores have supported communities for thousands of years. In a Neolithic village, people built stone houses, herded sheep and goats and ate fish, turtles and dugongs. A Mesopotamian ceramic vessel found on the island shows that Marawah had links across the Gulf; pearls were also gathered from its waters.