Dilmun Burial Mounds
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette
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Last modified
Feb 14, 2025 11:41 AM
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History
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UWHS
The Dilmun Burial Mounds, a cultural landscape inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in July 2019. This landscape includes tombs dispersed in at least 21 archaeological sites in western Bahrain. These tombs date between 2050 and 1750 B.C. In all there are more than 11,774 burial mounds.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933683602
26.1151794227, 50.506151596
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- Dilmun Burial Mounds connection Tylos (island) (unspecified date range)
- A'ali Mound Cemetery part of (analytical) Dilmun Burial Mounds (modern)
- Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field (Karzakkan) part of (analytical) Dilmun Burial Mounds (2000 BC - 1000 BC)
- Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field (Dar Kulayb) part of (analytical) Dilmun Burial Mounds (2000 BC - 1000 BC)
cultural landscape
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Maxime Guénette, 'Dilmun Burial Mounds: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933683602> [accessed: 23 May 2025]
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