The Royal Mounds of A'ali in Bahrain has long been shrouded in mystery and suspected to
be the final resting place of the Bronze Age kings of Dilmun. Puzzled by their great size …

The Harappan Civilization of Pakistan and Northwest India remains something of an enigma
for archaeologists despite almost a century of excavation and research. While few would …

This paper presents an updated compendium of the archaeological and ancient textual data
about long-range trade and multicultural interactions involving the nomadic and sedentary …

Abstract Imported ceramics from Early Bronze Age contexts in southeast Arabia illustrate a
complex multidirectional network of material and social interactions at this time. Significant …

Relations between the peoples of Mesopotamia and the Gulf go back at least to the late sixth
millennium (Carter 2006, 2010), but contacts were ruptured after the mid-fifth millennium BC …

Abstract al‐Tikha is a mid to large Umm an‐Nar (c. 2700–2000 BC) settlement situated near
Rustaq at the back of the Southern Batinah coastal plain in the Sultanate of Oman that was …

Known as the most interactive period of trade and interregional interaction, Dilmun led and
controlled the flow of commodities and the transshipment between Arabian Gulf political …

The 12th Archaeological Chemistry Symposium was held as part of the Spring ACS National
Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 7–11, 2013. This volume is a compilation of …

The Dilmun civilization appeared in the Mesopotamian sources as a land of Eden and a
supplier of ivory, copper, pearls and dates whose boats reached Ur ports. After the collapse …

The initial aim of the research, presented in this book, was to track bitumen throughout the
history of the Persian Gulf and use that information to identify trading networks and–contacts …