Dilmun was the first name of Bahrain Island and the east coast of - TopicsExpress



          

Dilmun was the first name of Bahrain Island and the east coast of Saudi Arabia. Dilmun has a great history which we must know about it. Let us go through that history and learn how our grand grand fathers spent their life in very active and dynamic way and faith as well. Dilmun or sometimes called Telmon is the old name of Bahrain. The first mention of Dilmun land was found in Sumerian cuneiform mud tablets dated to the end of fourth millennium BC in Uruk city. Uruk was the largest settlement in south of Mesopotamia about 3200B.C. Bahrain, one of the smallest countries in the world, contains a graveyard that dates back to pre-history and contains 300,000 tombs. The largest and most splendid temple surviving in Western Asia is at Barbar area. The French archaeologist teams, Pierre Lumpar, said the people of Delmon used to build their tombs during their lifetime, adding that these tombs used to take the shapes of towers. One of the early sites discovered in Bahrain talking about that the, king of Assyria Sennacherib (707–681 BC), attacked northeast Arabia and captured the Bahrain island. However, The last mention of Dilmun came on 567 BC during the Neo-Babylonian dynasty.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:42:14 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015