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Dilmun connected the shores of the ancient Gulf. Its ports linked Mesopotamia with eastern Arabia, the Oman Peninsula and the Indus world; its temples, settlements and burial grounds reveal the people who made those connections work.
Across 23 chapters, this illustrated history follows Dilmun beyond the borders of modern Bahrain. Explore the ancient capital beneath Qal’at al-Bahrain, daily life at Saar, the water sanctuaries of Barbar and their copper bull’s head, the great burial fields, and the northern island of Failaka. Follow copper, ships, seals and merchants across the sea, then trace the changes that reshaped those networks.
Sumerian visions of paradise stand alongside archaeology, inscriptions and scientific analysis. Later Tylos, Ikaros and other Gulf histories are distinguished from Dilmun’s Bronze Age world.
148-page digital PDF · 23 chapters, plus prologue and epilogue · 14 photographs and two original maps · chronology, place guide, glossary and 188 linked endnotes.
One PDF download, not a printed book. By Echoes and Edges.
Dilmun connected the shores of the ancient Gulf. Its ports linked Mesopotamia with eastern Arabia, the Oman Peninsula and the Indus world; its temples, settlements and burial grounds reveal the people who made those connections work.
Across 23 chapters, this illustrated history follows Dilmun beyond the borders of modern Bahrain. Explore the ancient capital beneath Qal’at al-Bahrain, daily life at Saar, the water sanctuaries of Barbar and their copper bull’s head, the great burial fields, and the northern island of Failaka. Follow copper, ships, seals and merchants across the sea, then trace the changes that reshaped those networks.
Sumerian visions of paradise stand alongside archaeology, inscriptions and scientific analysis. Later Tylos, Ikaros and other Gulf histories are distinguished from Dilmun’s Bronze Age world.
148-page digital PDF · 23 chapters, plus prologue and epilogue · 14 photographs and two original maps · chronology, place guide, glossary and 188 linked endnotes.
One PDF download, not a printed book. By Echoes and Edges.