Mar 30, 2012
This picture, taken by the French photographer Alain Saint-Hilaire in 1975, shows shiny new Mercedes lorries being unloaded at Mina Zayed. Read Article Time Frame: Booming Mina Zayed port takes a shiny yellow delivery
Mar 23, 2012
In this photo taken by the explorer Wilfred Thesiger after he crossed the Empty Quarter in 1948, a group of men launch a fishing boat from what is now the Corniche. Read Article Time Frame: After Empty Quarter crossing, a calm morning on the water
Feb 24, 2012
An Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company worker took this photo of oil exploration workers drilling for water at Habshan, the site of several major oil and gas discoveries between 1958 and 1962. Read Article Time Frame: Drilling for water, team struck oil at Habshan
Feb 03, 2012
This photo, taken in the mid-1950s by the oil worker John Vale, shows passengers boarding an India-bound ship that is moored offshore because the Creek was unnavigable. Read Article Time Frame: Boarding ships the hard way in Dubai Creek
Jan 13, 2012
The New Explorers depicted the beginnings of the oil industry in Abu Dhabi. Read Article Time Frame: Oil documentary charts path to discovery
Jan 06, 2012
A look back at the early days of commercial aviation in the Gulf. Read Article Time Frame: Abu Dhabi's first commercial airport
Dec 30, 2011
This photo was taken from the front door of the home of Peter and Susan Hillyard, the first expatriate family to live in the emirate.
Read Article Time Frame: On the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, 1955
Dec 23, 2011
This photograph shows the Sea Pearl, a 500-tonne hover barge built to transport prefabricated modules for a new gas liquefaction plant on Das Island, operating in the Gulf off Abu Dhabi after its launch in 1976.
Read Article Time Frame: Abu Dhabi's oil workhorse
Dec 15, 2011
This photograph shows pearls being sorted and graded on a pearling boat somewhere off the coast between Dubai and Abu Dhabi in 1952. Read Article Time Frame: Weighing pearls at sea
Dec 08, 2011
This photo taken in the 1970s, currently on display at an exhibition called The Roots of Success at the Khalidiya Palace Rayhaan by Rotana hotel, shows men doing the traditional sword dance.
Read Article The sword dance
