Madbasa, Ras al-Qalah, Bahrain National Museum

Madbasa, or date juice extraction floor, built 1600-1500 BC in Ras al-Qalah, with Kassite storehouses built 1400 BC on the level above and a Neo Assyrian palace built c. 800 BC above that, 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. 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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13442001

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45127964

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3806px x 5906px (6.6MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen