… 7No pearls can currently be associated with the Middle Dilmun period, but a tomb at Dar Kulayb ascribed to the Late Dilmun period (City IV, broadly dated to ca. 1000-300 BC) yielded a …
Studies of old aerial photographs of the Bahrain burial mound fields have revealed that a small number of both Early Type (c. 2200–2050 BC) and Late Type (c. 2050–1750 BC) …
Materials inscribed with cuneiform writing were found in two of the royal mounds of the A'ali cemetery." However, whereas Mound Ponly produced a single pottery shard noting the …
This paper outlines some of the research goals and methodological objectives of the Maritime Endangered Archaeology (MarEA) project, taking the maritime and coastal archaeology of …
… her issue in clearer terms: “when your land is occupied, your home destroyed or barred to you, it becomes natural to transcend your own person, move from the I to the we” (Dar Kulayb …
H istorians of glass are interested in understanding the role of glass objects within the social and economic life of people in the past, and in exploring glass as a material expression of …
During the 1960s, fifteen stamp seals and two cylinder seals were discovered at a mass burial site in Northern Bahrain known as the Charnel House. Soon after their discovery, these …
… The mission proved the existence of flourishing cities in Bahrain since the third millennium BC (Rice 1985, 24-28) including the burial mounds of Um Jidar, the mounds of Dar Kulayb, …
A strategic commercial crossroads during Antiquity but also heir to a pearling economic tradition of several centuries, the current Kingdom of Bahrain strives to manage, protect and …