Hili Archaeological Park

Why go

Hili Archaeological Park combines a public garden with Bronze Age remains at Hili; Visit Abu Dhabi gives its location as Mohammed Bin Khalifa Street, Al Ain. Its centrepiece is the Hili Grand Tomb, which the page dates to about 2000 BCE: a circular tomb up to 12 metres across with two entrances decorated with engraved reliefs of human and animal figures. The page says an early agricultural village at Hili Site 8 dates to 3000 BCE and that a number of Bronze Age structures inside the park are open to the public, while the park itself is chiefly a garden. Visit Abu Dhabi describes the park as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Al Ain; this record is the park, not the World Heritage property and not Hili Oasis or the Hili tombs outside it.