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Dilmun Burial Mounds

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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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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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933683602

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
26.1151794227, 50.506151596

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Dilmun Burial Mounds makes connections with:

Dilmun Burial Mounds connection Tylos (island) (unspecified date range)

Dilmun Burial Mounds receives connections from:

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)

Place type:
cultural landscape

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Dilmun Burial Mounds: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933683602> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933683602 |title=Places: 933683602 (Dilmun Burial Mounds) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 30, 2024 1:22 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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