Talk:Khor Rori

Site, village, or estuary?
The original lead for this article described it as being about an archaeological site (the fortified town), then it was reframed as being about a "village", and now again as an estuary. So what should the scope of this article be? To me "village" seems a stretch, since there are no buildings there apart from those associated with the archaeological site. I assume the point of describing it first as a natural feature is to emphasise that there is more going on there than the ruins (e.g. birds), but in that case maybe we should consider splitting off a standalone article on the archaeological site, because that is definitely an independently notable feature and it would avoid having two infoboxes etc. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 10:25, 23 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Khor Rori is the local name of the estuary/lagoon (khor means "inlet"). The archaeological site was not known by this name until the 1950s. That is why it is described first as an estuary/lagoon. I do not think it makes much sense to split the article. The Khor Rori area contains not only the fortified ruins of Sumhuram, but also ruins on Inqitat Mirbat and Inqitat Taqah, and their relationship is still unclear. The history of these settlements was inextricably linked with the estuary/lagoon which acted as their harbour, and the environmental changes of the estuary/lagoon largely decided the fate of these settlements. For tourists, the archaeogical ruins and the estuary/lagoon are also inseparable, as they belong to the same tourist attraction and one ticket allows access to both.--Neux-Neux (talk) 17:09, 25 March 2021 (UTC)