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During the 8th century BCE, it is believed that the Yaarub, the descendant of [[Qahtanite|Qahtan]], ruled the entire region of Yemen, including Oman. Wathil bin Himyar bin [[Sheba|Abd-Shams (Saba)]] bin Yashjub ([[Yemen|Yaman]]) bin Yarub bin [[Joktan|Qahtan]] later ruled Oman.<ref name=YWTATss/> It is thus believed that the Yaarubah were the first settlers in Oman from Yemen.<ref name=MIIDN/>
In the 1970s and 1980s, scholars like [[John C. Wilkinson]]<ref>{{cite book |title= Water and Tribal Settlement in South East Arabia – A Study of the Aflaj of Oman |author=Wilkinson, John |publisher=Clarendon Press |year= 1977 |pages=76, 85, 122, 126–130, 132 |isbn=0198232179}}</ref> believed by virtue of oral history that in the 6th century BCE, the [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenids]] exerted control over the Omani peninsula, most likely ruling from a coastal centre such as [[Suhar]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Cross-roads Early and Late Iron Age South-Eastern Arabia |author=Yule, Paul |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |year= 2014 |pages=15–18 |isbn=9783447101271}}</ref> Central Oman has its own indigenous Samad Late Iron Age cultural assemblage named eponymously from [[Samad al-Shan]]. In the northern part of the Oman Peninsula the [[Pre-Islamic Arabia|Recent Pre-Islamic Period]] begins in the 3rd century BCE and extends into the 3rd century CE. Whether or not Persians brought south-eastern Arabia under their control is a moot point, since the lack of Persian archeological finds speak against this belief. [[Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval]] suggests that Shammir bin Wathil bin Himyar recognized the authority of [[Cyrus the Great]] over Oman in 536 BCE.<ref name=YWTATss>[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023697835.0x000028 British National Archive: Salîl-ibn-Razîk "History of the imâms and seyyids of Omân"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707182006/http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023697835.0x000028 |date=7 July 2022 }} History of the imâms and seyyids of Omân. British National Archive page 39 QDL</ref>
[[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] tablets referred to Oman as "[[Magan (civilization)|Magan]]"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.archaeology.org/9705/abstracts/magan.html |title=Digging in the Land of Magan – Archaeology Magazine Archive |publisher=Archive.archaeology.org |access-date=14 January 2014 |archive-date=23 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023072850/http://archive.archaeology.org/9705/abstracts/magan.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198303/oman-the.lost.land.htm |title=Oman: The Lost Land |magazine=Saudi Aramco World |date=March 1983 |access-date=14 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006085542/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198303/oman-the.lost.land.htm |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in the [[Akkadian language]] "Makan",<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198303/oman-a.history.htm |title=Oman: A History |magazine=Saudi Aramco World |date=March 1983 |access-date=14 January 2014 |archive-date=28 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228222525/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198303/oman-a.history.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India |author1=Feuerstein, Georg |author2=Kak, Subhash |author3=Frawley, David |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publisher |year= 2005 |page=119 |isbn=8120820371}}</ref> a name which links Oman's ancient copper resources.<ref>Gerd Weisgerber "Mehr als Kupfer in Oman" ''Anschnitt'' 5-6, 1981, 180–181 [[Archaeology of Oman]]</ref>
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