You cant get around Bahrain without spotting at least one burial mound.
They appear like small conical hills, and they usually occur in groupssometimes, hundreds of them together.
The Dilmun Burial Mounds, Bahrain.
Archeologists estimate that there could have been as many as 350,000 grave mounds across Bahrain at one point.
Although they are referred to as mound, these burial tombs were originally cylindrical low towers.
Additionally, the shape, style, and size of the mounds varied from region to region.
The grandest of them all, the royal mounds, were built during this period of economic importance.
“There is huge pressure to build houses for the expanding population.
Altogether, these protected sites contain more than eleven thousand burial mounds.
Partial excavated burial mound in Saar village, Bahrain.
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A disintegrated Dilmun Burial Mound in A’ali.
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