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Murwab Archaeological Site is one of the most important archaeological sites in Qatar, and it stands as a testament to Qatar's early Islamic history. Located in the northwest of the State of Qatar, it dates back to the ninth century CE.
The ruins of the village of Murwab lie at the edge of a fertile depression over an area of approximately four kilometers. At this site are the ruins of a fortress built upon the remains of an older fortress, of which only two walls remain, one in the east and one in the south. The layout of the upper fortress is rectangular, with its southern wall measuring 26 meters, the northern 26 meters, the eastern 28 meters, and the western 29 meters. These walls are reinforced by four solid corner towers, each 1.10 meters in diameter, and five solid semicircular towers, each 1.60 meters in diameter. Around the ruins of the fortress there are several buildings, numbering up to 250 residential structures, surrounding the north of the fortress in the shape of a crescent, in addition to two small groups, one to the west and the other about one kilometer to the south of the fortress. Excavation work has also revealed the remains of two mosques at the two ends of the northern residential group. A collection of tombs of various sizes was also found at the site, to the west of the northern village, and others scattered to the south of the fortress and in the depression.
