Ancient Julfar was the birthplace of Ahmed ibn Majid, the Arab navigator who guided Vasco da Gama to India in 1498, and the excavated port city near Ras Al Khaimah documents a trading civilisation that connected the Gulf to East Africa, India, and China from the 5th century AD.

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