Qala'at al-Bahrain is a tell in Bahrain. Excavations in 1953-1978 have focused on the area around the city wall and in the centre of the settlement. The oldest building remains can be dated to the late third millennium BC, and around 2000 BC. This v…
Failaka/Dilmun -- The Second Millennium Settlements - Danish Archaeological Investigations in Kuwait -- The Bronze Age Pottery
In the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC, the Arabian Gulf was an important waterway linking the large cities and states of Mesopotamia and Iran with Southeast Arabia and the Indus Valley. Trade along the Lower Sea, as the Gulf was named, demanded supportin…
The first archaeological surveys and excavations in the state of Qatar were carried out by Moesgaard Museum, Denmark, in 1956-1974. A volume on the Stone Age sites was released by JAS in 1967, and the present publication includes the remaining inves…
Danish excavations 1958-1963 on the island of Failaka in Kuwait uncovered a small community of Dilmun traders dating to the 2nd millennium BC. Tell F3 revealed rows of small houses inhabited by private families, whereas Tell F6 was the centre of a l…
The first volume in The Carlsberg Foundation's Gulf Project about the Danish archaeological investigations in Bahrain from 1953-1978. It contains the results of the investigations around the northern part of the city wall, which surrounded a larger…
