Qal'at al-Bahrain

 

Qal'at al-Bahrain is an Ancient Harbor and Capital of Dilmun is an archeological site containing four fundamental components: an archeological recount in excess of 16 ha, quickly neighboring the northern shoreline of Bahrain; an ocean tower around 1600m North-West of the tell; an ocean channel of just under 16 hectares through the reef close to the ocean tower, and palm-forests. The palm-forests and customary agrarian enclosures encompass the site inside the entire range of the area part of the cushion zone, being especially discernible on the Western and Northern sides, additionally happening on the Eastern and South-Eastern sides. The property is arranged in the Northern Governorate, in Al Qalah town region on the northern drift around 5.5 km West of Manama, the present capital of Bahrain. The soonest stratum on the site, dated to around 2300 BCE, comprises of what were most likely private structures, found close to the ocean. This was the period when a thick workmanship divider was built, to encompass and secure the settlement. A later divider, potentially fortification of the first, was raised around 1450 BCE. Diverse occupation layers were revealed in the focal exhuming region. The primary building design revealed comprises of a road, measuring 12 m in width, with expansive, great structures on both sides. The prior structures were adjusted and amplified, to serve as the royal residence of the Kassite senator. In the same exhuming territory, a few sumptuous living arrangements, with private and open spaces and showy sanitation framework, likewise have a place with the same period.