Brilliant! Of course! It's true as well and there are shell middens along the coast (something I'm familiar with from the coast of southern South America).
Hajar,
Not to make you homesick (assuming you are still in the US) I do a little web and administrative work for the Coral Restoration Foundation and this video and related links were posted about Oman on their Facebook page today:
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