Date: Friday, 18th April 2025
Gathering Time and Place: 08:00am, Zubara
Duration: 3 hours
Trip Leader: Dr. Ferhan Sekal (Trip leader / QNHG Rambles Coordinator)
Omer Bin Abdul Aziz (QNHG Rambles Coordinator)
Trip Registration
Registration is mandatory. This event is open to all present and past members as our registration process
is still on. However, priority will be given to present members.
Please share your name, number of participants and phone number (for whats'app group) by
email Quasar273@gmail.com. Please mention your preference of team Please note down the
phone number and feel free to contact for coordination: +974 33557654
Ramble Summary
During this ramble we will visit the ongoing excavations of Qatar Museums directed by QNHG member Dr. Ferhan Sakal. We will discuss about the recent archaeological investigations and lay a special focus on date presses, their history, organization, function, and importance.
Trip Leader Bio
(Omer Bin Abdul Aziz)
A birding enthusiast by day, an astronomer by night and an engineer in between. Behind me are hundreds of pinhole projections of the eclipsed sun from Doha earlier in 2020. I’m proud to live with my 8 inch telescope, a bunch of cameras, a bicycle and three daughters!
Trip Leader Bio
(Dr. Farhan Sakal)
Dr. Ferhan Sakal is an archaeologist with over 30 years of field experience in Western Asia and Europe. Before moving to Qatar, he worked for several excavation projects in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Germany and was field director of several excavation and survey projects, as well as a teaching fellow at the University of Tübingen (Germany). He published several books, editions and articles mostly on chronology, funerary archaeology, archaeological excavations, and material studies. Since 2013 he works for Qatar Museums and currently holds the position Head of Excavation and Site Management at the Department of Archaeology.
