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    Dilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian: , later 𒉌𒌇(𒆠), NI.TUKki = dilmunki; Arabic: دلمون) was an ancient East Semitic-speaking civilization in Eastern Arabia...
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    and the earliest Semitic-speaking civilization in the eastern part was Dilmun, which arose around the end of the 4th millennium BCE and lasted to around...
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    city of Uruk. The demonym "Dilmun" is used to describe a type of axe and the ethnicity of an official in these tablets. Dilmun was also mentioned in two...
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  • Bahrain was a central location of the ancient Dilmun civilization. Bahrain's strategic location in the Persian Gulf has brought rule and influence from...
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    Mesopotamia and Dilmun were strong and profound to the point where Dilmun was a central figure to the Sumerian creation myth. Dilmun was described in...
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    thick, and slightly damaged. The tablet details that Ea-nāṣir travelled to Dilmun to buy copper and returned to sell it in Mesopotamia. On one particular...
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    reference to Bahrain is made as the paradise of Dilmun). The exhibit focuses on burial practices of the Dilmun civilization and features an actual burial mound...
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    Kassites, Greeks, Portuguese and Persians. It was once the capital of the Dilmun civilization and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005....
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    Dilmun civilization suggests the island was linked with the Bahrain-based civilization from c. 2000 to 1750 BC. Ceramics dating to the early Dilmun period...
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    The Dilmun Burial Mounds (Arabic: مدافن دلمون, romanized: Madāfin Dilmūn) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising necropolis areas on the main island...
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    of Dilmun where The land of Dilmun is a pure place, the land of Dilmun is a clean place, The land of Dilmun is a clean place, the land of Dilmun is a...
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    Dilmun, and Meluhha. The Sumerian location of Magan is now accepted to be the area currently encompassing the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Dilmun was...
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  • Dilmun is a region of high albedo on Titan, Saturn's natural satellite. Dilmun is located near the equator, centered on 15°N and 175 ° W. The large dark...
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    “Boats from the (distant) land of Dilmun carried the wood (for him)”. This is the oldest known written record of Dilmun and importation of goods into Mesopotamia...
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    Uqair (section Dilmun)
    ancient civilization of Dilmun. These burial mounds estimated at more than 100,000, rest on the island of Bahrain (Looking for Dilmun, Geoffrey Bibby, p. 7)...
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    in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar to the Sumerian geographical term of Dilmun. Oman, was most likely the Sumerian Magan". Modern archaeological and geological...
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    In 4000 BC until 2000 BC, the bay of Kuwait was home to the Dilmun civilization. Dilmun's control of the bay of Kuwait included mainland Akkaz, Umm an...
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    Saar is the site of a temple, known as "Saar Temple", built during the Dilmun era of Bahrain's history. The temple was believed to have played an important...
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    picks up again in the period of Dilmun in the early 3rd millennium. Known records from Uruk refer to a place called Dilmun, associated on several occasions...
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    The Incans had chacmools which were dedicated to sacrifice. Similarly, in Dilmun they had sacrificial altars. In many civilizations, the furniture depended...
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  • bay of Kuwait was home to the Dilmun civilization. Dilmun included Al-Shadadiya, Akkaz, Umm an Namil, and Failaka. Dilmun first appears in Sumerian cuneiform...
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    name in Arabic means "two seas", and which is thought to be the site of Dilmun, the original site of the Sumerian creation beliefs. The difference in density...
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  • Qal'at al-Bahrain Bahrain Pearling Trail Dilmun Burial Mounds The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates...
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    A'ali (section Dilmun era)
    potters and boutiques in the whole town. The burial mounds date to the Dilmun era (3200 BC-330 BC). In February 1889 some of the mounds were investigated...
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  • Games”) آفاق دلمونية (“Horizons of Dilmun”) أشياء تراثية (“Heritage Objects”) الأسلوب الديلموني في الفن المعاصر (“The Dilmun Style in Contemporary Art”) Al...
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    capital and largest city is Manama. Bahrain is the site of the ancient Dilmun civilization. It has been famed since antiquity for its pearl fisheries...
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    At its height, the Middle Assyrian Empire stretched from The Caucasus to Dilmun (modern Bahrain), and from the Mediterranean coasts of Phoenicia to the...
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    Preceded by prehistory Near East Sumer Kish Egypt Elam Ebla Mari Armi Hatti Dilmun Magan Nubia Berbers Akkad Assyria Babylonia Qatna Amurru Yamhad Urkesh Mitanni...
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    the Levant, and Anatolia, sending military expeditions as far south as Dilmun and Magan (modern United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and...
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  • measures used at Dilmun were in fact identical to those used by the Indus, and were not those used in Southern Mesopotamia. "the ships of Dilmun, from the foreign...
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