Muscat: The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism (MHT) has issued a clarification regarding rumours circulating about a meteorite piece.
An official statement said, “The ministry has followed up on recent social media reports about a citizen in possession of a piece suspected to be a rare meteorite.
The ministry has begun contacting him and collecting the sample. It has since been found that the information circulating is tainted with some inaccuracies and is not based on accurate scientific evidence.”
The Ministry calls upon all citizens and residents who possess geological heritage samples, or suspect that they possess a meteorite sample to take the initiative to hand them over to the Ministry or the directorates/departments of heritage and tourism in the governorates.
It stressed the need to refrain from possessing or transferring any component of geological heritage, to avoid legal accountability, under the provisions of the Cultural Heritage Law issued by Royal Decree No. (35/2019), which is considered public property of the Sultanate of Oman.
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