Sacrificial courtyard, photograph, Bahrain National
Oval sacrificial courtyard with ramp and staircase leading to central temple platform, and floor covered with sacrificial animal bones and ashes, to the East of Barbar Temple II, 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. This large temple was discovered near the village of Barbar and the site consists of 3 successive temples, with the 2 oldest temples terraced with a central platform above an outer oval platform, in Sumerian style. This temple contains a sacrificial courtyard, altars, shrines and an underground shrine built around a fresh water spring. The Bahrain National 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
