Umm Al Maa
ام الماء | |
Qala'at (Fort) Umm Al Maa | |
| Location | Northwest Qatar |
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| Coordinates | 25°49′03″N 50°59′26″E / 25.817443°N 50.990465°E |
| Type | Settlement |
| Area | At least 600 km2 |
| History | |
| Periods | Bronze Age (c. 3,000 BC) |
| Cultures | Unknown, possibly Dilmun |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1957 1970s 1988–1991 |
| Archaeologists | Geoffrey Bibby & Peter Glob Beatrice de Cardi Masatoshi A Konishi, Takeshi Gotoh & Yoshihiko Akashi |
Umm Al Maa (Arabic: ام الماء, romanized: ‘Umm al-Mā’) is an archaeological site in northwest Qatar in the municipality of Al Khor, near the border with Al Shamal. It has an ancient cemetery, which is thought to date to the Bronze Age.