A team of archaeologists working in Bahrain has recovered a funerary mask dated to roughly 3,300 years ago, linking it to the Dilmun civilization that once controlled trade across the Persian Gulf.

Failaka Island, Kuwait, has revealed a 4,000-year-old Dilmun civilization temple, the second found stacked on the same site. This significant Bronze Age discovery, made by a Kuwaiti-Danish team, ...

SAAR, Bahrain (AP) ― More than 4,000 years ago, Dilmun merchants traveled from Mesopotamia to the Indus River, titans of trade and culture before rise of the empires of the Persians or the Ottomans.

Ruins of the capital city of Dilmun, on the island of Bahrain, are visible alongside a fort dating to the sixteenth century a.d. Dilmun founded its capital around 2000 b.c., when it increasingly ...

When historians look back into time to name the first civilized people, they usually pick the Sumerians, who built imposing cities, including Abraham’s Ur of the Chaldees, in southern Mesopotamia ...

Manama, Apr. 24 (BNA): In a milestone achievement, that underscores Bahrain’s deep-rooted cultural legacy, the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) has announced the inscription of the ...

The small island nation of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf is home to one of the world’s largest ancient cemeteries, dating back to the 4,000-year-old Dilmun civilisation. Dilmun is one of the oldest ...

Manama, Apr. 19 (BNA): The continuous archaeological excavation works in Bahrain in 2019 and 2020 have led to many new promising discoveries unearthed by professional world-renowned expeditions, which ...

Qal'at al-Bahrain on the coast near Manama reveals over four millennia of settlement in Bahrain, from Bronze Age Dilmun to a Portuguese fort and beyond. Aquarellillustration des Wahrzeichens Bahrain ...

Gamers can now do battle in the land of Dilmun, thanks to a new game released on the Google Play Store by Bahraini developer Empire Studios. ‘Guardians of Valor’ is a free tower defence game set in ...