diff --git a/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml b/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml
index 2961ed8..4bee0fe 100644
--- a/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml
+++ b/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml
@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@
     <glob pattern="*.epub"/>
   </mime-type>
 
+  <mime-type type="application/x-unix-archive">
+    <magic priority="50">
+      <match value="0x213C617263683E0A" type="string" offset="0" />
+    </magic>
+    <glob pattern="*.a"/>
+  </mime-type>
+
   <mime-type type="application/eshop"/>
   <mime-type type="application/example"/>
   <mime-type type="application/fastinfoset"/>