One of the primary concerns in cultures during this time was the treatment of dead. From the Umm an Nar Period there is a large number of collective tombs located at Hili, a short distance from the museum. These were circular in shape and built of stone. A typical feature of this type of burials is two entrances leading to interior chambers. The dead were buried in these chambers together with objects and personal items. The archaeological objects uncovered during the excavations of Hili tombs date to the 3rd millennium B.C and are displayed in cases 110 - 126.

Several types of pottery have been displayed. Among these are fine red ware with decorations, the locally made suspension vessels and some domestic bowls. The latter are deep open bowls decorated with wavy lines around the upper part of the pots. Imported pottery vessels from Mesopotamia, Iran and the Indus Valley were among the finds.

At Hall 4, on the right hand side there is a bronze dagger, more pottery of the suspension vessel type and necklaces of red carnelian which were used to decorate the chest of the women and children. The dagger is evidence that copper was locally mined and smelted, while the red carnelian may have been imported from the subcontinent where the raw material is available. More evidence of copper mining in the land of Magan, which covers the U.A.E and Oman, is available. Mesopotamian texts and the archaeological explorations both demonstrated that copper was exported from the land of Magan to present Iraq. In this wing of the Bronze Age there is a bigger collection of other domestic bowls showing wavy lines around the rims. This motif was very common during the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC. Next to the former collection there is a small case with other types of pottery all of which came from the Hili tombs. These are examples of jars, beakers and miniature vessels. They all belong to the later period of tombs from the early part of the 2nd mill. BC.

In the corner of the right hand side of the same gallery visitors can see a big collection of stone vessels. These vessels were made of a stone called chlorite, which is a kind of soap stone. Beakers decorated with concentric circles with a dot in the centre, small shallow bowls carved out in hemispherical shapes decorated with a single row of concentric circles and small compartment boxes are the most common shapes of the 3rd mill BC stone industry. There are also some rectangular lids decorated with the same design.

More than 4000 years ago, ancient Magan which, covers the regions of the UAE and Oman, was well known for its stone industry as well. Vessels like the ones on display reached other areas in the Gulf as well as Mesopotamia. The Magan stone industry lasted more than 2000 years, as we will see later.

Because pottery is considered a key for archaeology and because there are extensive samples from the archaeological discoveries made at Hili, its industry is explained through some sketches. They show the three main ways of making pottery: by compressing the clay with the thumb, by making coils and with a wheel.

Below the pottery sketches there are three cases (122 - 124) which show other types of pottery and vessels made of calcite. These pottery vessels have rounded bodies and small narrow mouths. The most prominent of these vessels is the one, which is decorated with a peacok. This motif indicates a sub-continent origin as was used by the Indus culture of Harappa.

On the left of the pottery sketches from Hili as well there are two cases (125 and 126) showing a different type of pottery. This type is called a grey ware and it is indicative of the third millennium BC culture. Its thin walls are decorated with motifs, which are different from those shown on the fine red ware. Among the new motifs are animals and geometric designs, both made in rows covering the whole vessels. Goats, caprids and perhaps oryxes are illustrated on the painted type of this pottery.

The sub-type of this kind of pottery is the incised ware. Case 126 shows a collection of pottery decorated with incisions. Some incised motifs represent architectural designs, which are called inter-cultural designs, i.e, designs that were known in several regions extending from the Indus Valley to Syria. For both painted and incised ware we should not exclude the multi-production centers.