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Tell Khaiber: A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty
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.
Pottery from Tell Khaiber
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…
The Dilmun Temple at Saar
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. …
Al-Khor Island
Report on archaeological investigations at Al-Khor Island, Qatar. Chapter headings are: Introduction; Survey & Excavation; The Pottery of Al-Khor Island; Discussion and Conclusions. There is also an illustrated …
Early Dilmun Seals from Saar
The excavations at Saar produced the largest single corpus of Bronze Age seals and sealings found in Bahrain, the centre of the Dilmun civilization (2000 BC). This material forms a unique record of the art …
The Early Dilmun Settlement at Saar
This volume reports on the excavation of over seventy buildings in the Dilmun settlement at Saar, some of which were extraordinarily well preserved with walls standing in places to roof height. The development and architecture …