Siyara

Siyara lies east of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, beside a natural harbour on the dry northern Somali coast. The fifteenth-century navigator Ibn Majid described a ruined town here and noted the shelter offered by its anchorage. Pottery and other imported wares found at the site reveal connections reaching across the Indian Ocean, with objects from places as distant as China, India and the lands bordering the Persian Gulf.