UNESCO World Heritage Sites in United Arab Emirates

The Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) constitute a serial property that testifies to sedentary human occupation of a desert region since the Neolithic period with vestiges of many prehistoric cultures. Remarkable vestiges in the property include circular stone tombs (ca 2500 B.C.), wells and a wide range of adobe constructions: residential buildings, towers, palaces and administrative buildings. Hili moreover features one of the oldest examples of the sophisticated aflaj irrigation system which dates back to the Iron Age. The property provides important testimony to the transition of cultures in the region from hunting and gathering to sedentarization.

Jebel Faya (Arabic: جَبَل ٱلْفَايَة, romanized: Jabal Al-Fāyah) is an archaeological site and limestone hill or escarpment near Mleiha, located in the central region of the Emirate of Sharjah in the UAE. It is considered the largest central mountain within a group of surrounding hills, including Jebel Mleiha to the northwest, Jebel Emailah to the east, and Jebel Aqabah and Jebel Buhais to the southwest. This group of mountains is known as the "Faya Mountain Range." Jebel Faya contains several very important archaeological sites, including FAY-NE 1, which dates to the Palaeolithic period and Wadi al-Kohof (Caves Wadi), which comprises the archaeological sites FAY-NE 10 and FAY-NE 15, dating to the Neolithic period.

Located about 50 km (31 miles) east of the city of Sharjah, and between the shoreline of the Gulf and Al Hajar Mountains, the Paleolandscape of Faya contains tool assemblages and burials from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age reflecting human occupation of the region between 210,000 and 2,300 years ago.

Wadi Wurayah (Arabic: وَادِي ٱلْوُرَيْعَة, romanized: Wādī Al-Wurayʿah) is a 12,700-hectare (31,000-acre) wadi between the towns of Masafi, Khor Fakkan, and Bidiyah in the United Arab Emirates. It has been designated as Ramsar Wetland of International Importance. The lush canyon in the area was named after the tall marsh plant known as ‘warrah’, that flourishes in its wetlands, while the word ‘wadi’ is the Arabic term for valley.