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Bahrain
/ History
Bahrain
is rich in history and ancient civilizations have only recently
been discovered by international archaeologists. Its believed
that for tens of thousands of years, nomads traveled over Bahrain's
desert and primitive flint tolls found, testify to this history.
Recent finds have evidenced that Bahrain was indeed the site of
the lost civilization of Dilmun dating from the third millennium
BC, often refereed to as the fabled Garden of Eden and described
as "paradise" in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The land is repeatedly mentioned in Sumerian , Babylonian and
Assyrian inscriptions as an important seaport between Mesopotamia
and the Indus Valley, due to the perennial abundance of sweet
water. By 600BC, Bahrain was absorbed into the new Babylonian
Empire and once again flourished as a prosperous entreaty.
In 323BC, two of "Alexander the Great" ships arrived and new trade
routes opened, resulting in such a strong Greek influence that
Dilmun was renamed Tylos. Bahrain was also the site of the largest
prehistoric cemetery in the world. At once stage an estimated
170,000 burial mounds covered the central and western areas.
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