Description: The Research Center Indian Ocean has been established in Muscat/ Sultanate of Oman as one of the major hubs of the Indian Ocean inter region.
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The geographic region of the Indian Ocean has greatest importance for the development of civilizations of mankind. Within its fringes we see the development of the earliest three civilizations of the third millennium BC, the ones of the Euphrates- Tigris, the Nile and the Indus Valley Civilization. All three developed their own, independent writings, their own religions and their different “states”.
The Research Centre Indian Ocean has been established at GUtech, the German University of Technology in the Sultanate of Oman, as one of the major hubs of the Indian Ocean inter region. The Research Centre has been founded by the late Prof. Michael Jansen and it is managed by a “Task Force”. This steering committee consists presently of Prof. Ercan Agirbas (GUtech), Prof. Heba Aziz (GUtech, UNESCO Chair), Prof. Wilfried Bauer (GUtech), Prof. Bernard Heim, Prof. Alexander Kader, Joachim Düster (Oman Research