Bahrain Island

…built of limestone) situated on Bahrain Island, and many thousands of burial mounds attest to the island’s prominence. Qalaʿat (fort) al-Baḥrain, a large low tell covering about 45 acres (18 hectares) on the northern coast of the island, is the largest site and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site…

…excavations on the islands of Bahrain and Faylakah, off the Tigris-Euphrates delta, have disclosed staging posts between Mesopotamia and the Indus valley civilization. Short-lived salvage operations have been undertaken at the site of the Assad Dam on the middle Euphrates (e.g., German excavations at Ḥabūba al-Kabīra, 1971–76). Italian excavations at…

The island of Bahrain accounts for seven-eighths of the country’s total land area and is surrounded by smaller islands. Two of these—Al-Muḥarraq and Sitrah, both to the northeast—are joined to Bahrain Island by causeways that have facilitated residential and industrial development; other islands in the group are Nabī…