{"id":13173,"date":"2024-01-31T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=13173"},"modified":"2024-01-31T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:37:16","slug":"boats-from-dilmun-houses-a-civilization-spanning-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/boats-from-dilmun-houses-a-civilization-spanning-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Boats from &#8220;Dilmun Houses&#8221;, A civilization Spanning Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past, Bahrain was the center of a region with a cultural and political unity known as \u201cDilmun,\u201d which extended along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, from Failaka Island, which today belongs to the State of Kuwait, to the borders of the country of Majan, which is known today as Oman.<br \/>\nThis region formed a link between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, and was known for its maritime commercial activity, due to the availability of economic and vital conditions in it, and the availability of the necessary resources and capabilities.<br \/>\nWritten evidence of this activity is numerous, and is matched by artistic pictorial evidence, which appears in a group of seals decorated with inscriptions, found in Bahrain and Failaka.<br \/>\nDilmun turned into a monopolistic commercial center, and this transformation was echoed in a famous Sumerian text dating back to the second millennium BC, which sings of the \u201cgood houses of Dilmun,\u201d which are the houses from which gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, myrtle wood, glorious sea timber, precious stones and crystal are transported , and copper of great strength and ebony and good metal, grains and sesame oil, and noble and glorious clothes.<br \/>\nFrom the islands of Bahrain and Failaka, a huge number of cylinder seals emerged decorated with pictorial engravings that encapsulate a wide world of multi-faceted connotations.<br \/>\nIn a group of these seals, there are images of small boats that form a special plastic dictionary that bears witness to the maritime commercial role that Dilmun played over centuries.<br \/>\nThese seals date back to three successive eras&#8230; The first stage extends from 2050 to 1900 BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events In the past, Bahrain was the center of a region with a cultural and political unity known as \u201cDilmun,\u201d which extended along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, from Failaka Island, which today belongs to the State of Kuwait, to the borders of the country of Majan, which is known today &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13175,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions\/13175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}