Altar, Temples of Dilmun, photograph, Bahrain

Altar with traces of burnt offerings in the inner hall of a temple at Sar, Temples of Dilmun, photograph, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. 5 temples have been excavated, at Sar, Diraz, Umm as-Sujur and Barbar, with architecture in the Sumerian Mesopotamian style. The museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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