ABSTRACT
The history of the ancient colonization of Oman in Eastern Arabia is naturally connected very closely with that of the rest of the peninsula, but the subject is so veiled in obscurity, from the absence of materials, that the people knowledge of it is shadowy and fragmentary in the extreme. The ordinary works on Arab history may be ransacked Ill vain for information on Eastern Arabia at this period, and the only native chronicle on which the people have to rely gives the reader but little help. After the collapse of the dam, which was never rebuilt, the city of Mareb began to decline, the trade languished, the Greek and other foreign merchants forsook its markets, and the population History of Early colonization. On receiving news of what had occurred in Oman, the Parthian king appointed a new marzaban, and despatched him with reinforce History of Early colonization.
