Excavations at Tell Khaiber (2013–17), not far from Ur in southern Iraq, produced the first stratified assemblage dating to the elusive First Sealand Dynasty that ruled over southern Babylonia in the mid-second millennium BCE.
The First Sealand period in Babylonia has long been obscure, despite the major changes that occurred in the area at that time. Recent excavations at Tell Khaiber near Ur have uncovered a large fortified building of the period…
Four thousand years ago the land of Dilmun (ancient Bahrain) lay at the crossroads between the civilized world and the mysterious East. Its merchants prospered greatly from a lucrative trade in copper and luxury goods. …