His pond was never completed. As he supervised the excavation, he says, “I spotted a smooth, shaped stone sticking out of the ground. I recognized it was an old and important object.” He could tell at once it was a statue of an animal. It was buried upright, head toward the surface, he says. “I paid off the operator and told him to follow his tracks back to the road.”
Over the next few years, Ibn Gublan unearthed some 300 objects there. Though none was as large as the first, his finds included
The large statue found in Al-Magar of a horse, around one metre in length |
Discovery at al-Magar
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