The tower heavily braced interior. The Hayla T ower and its date palm, Oasis setting. TYPE: Terrestrial laser scanning KEYWORDS: Historical digital archival recording by laser scanning technologies. INTRODUCTION At the request of Donald Insall Associates, Historic Building Consultants, we were instructed to undertake a digital archival survey of the Hayla T ower in the Liwa Oasis, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on behalf of the ultimate client ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage). Liwa Oasis lies 150 km ssw of the city of Abu Dhabi in the Rub-Al-Khali Desert and is a crescent shaped Oasis consisting of 50 or so villages and a small town (Muzayri). The Oasis is of historic significance to the people of the UAE as it is the birthplace of the ruling families of Abu

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