Dilmun Discovered
Author | : Michael Rice |
Publisher | : Department of Antiquities and Meseums State of Bahrain |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Rice |
Publisher | : Department of Antiquities and Meseums State of Bahrain |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey Bibby |
Publisher | : Stacey International Publishers |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780905743905 |
Dilmun features both in Mesopotamian myth, as a blessed land where death is unknown, and in the trade records of the Mesopotamian city of Ur as a real place, the source of Ur's copper supplies. The quest for the real Dilmun began in a relatively light-hearted way in 1953, when Geoffrey Bibby seized the opportunity to revisit Bahrain, in order to explore the thousands of undated burial mounds that decorate the Bahraini landscape. A brief season's digging was enough to establish the existence of a major civilization dating from around 2300 BC, contemporary with Ur and Babylon and showing evidence of trade with the Indus Valley civilization. Thus began a major undertaking, eventually encompassing more than 20 annual expeditions. These revealed the existence of cities and temples not only on Bahrain, but along 250 miles of coast and islands as far north as Kuwait and extending 60 miles into the interior of Saudi Arabia, as well as a second and earlier civilization some 300 miles east, in Oman, which Bibby identified with the legendary copper-rich land of Makan. And the final extraordinary revelation was the discovery in Saudi Arabia of pottery contemporary with the very earliest Stone Age settlements in Mesopotamia, c.5000 BC, extending the early history of the Gulf region back by over 1000 years and raising the possibility that Mesopotamia was first settled from Arabia.
Author | : ʻAlī Akbar Bū Shahrī |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Bahrain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Rice |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134967934 |
The archaeological remains in the Gulf area are astounding, and still relatively unexplored. Michael Rice has produced the first up-to-date book, which encompasses all the recent work in the area. He shows that the Gulf has been a major channel of commerce for millenia, and that its ancient culture was rich and complex, to be counted with its great contempororaries in Sumer, Egypt and south-west Persia.
Author | : Geoffrey Bibby |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Dilmun was a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait, and as far south as Saudi Arabia. The quest for the real Dilmun began when the author revisited Bahrain in order to explore the thousands of undated burial mounds scattered across the country. A seasons digging established the existence of a major civilisation dating from around 2300 BC. First published in 1969 this fascinating book of discovery tells the story of archaeological detective work with style and humour. It is re-issued here for a new generation of readers and introduced by Carl Phillips, one of the leading archaeologists of the region.
Author | : Sabrina de Turk |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1786736055 |
Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much discussion in both the popular media and academia. Yet, this conversation has generalised street art and identified it as a singular form with identical styles and objectives throughout the region. Street art's purpose is, however, defined by the socio-cultural circumstances of its production. Middle Eastern artists thus adopt distinctive methods in creating their individual work and responding to their individual environments. Here, in this new book, Sabrina De Turk employs rigorous visual analysis to explore the diversity of Middle Eastern street art and uses case studies of countries as varied as Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain and Oman to illustrate how geographic specifics impact upon its function and aesthetic. Her book will be of significant interest to scholars specialising in art from the Middle East and North Africa and those who bring an interdisciplinary perspective to Middle East studies.
Author | : Timothy Insoll |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9004383662 |
In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, types, manufacture, decoration, iconography, inscription content, archaeological context, history of research, and contemporary significance and conservation issues.
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art, Ancient |
ISBN | : 1588390438 |
Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003.
Author | : Piotr Bienkowski |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2010-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812221152 |
An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.