Green marks a country with rooms.
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The Barbar temple Three temples stacked at Barbar, a stair down to a spring, and a copper bull’s head under the floor of the second temple, dated by pottery and nudged earlier by radiocarbon. -
Dilmun burial mounds Thousands of Early Dilmun tombs on Bahrain, a few of them royal, and a paradise name in Mesopotamian texts that may or may not be this island.
Offshore
Rooms in the sea off this coast. Each one is a pin on the world map once the chart is enlarged. They are gathered in the Drowned Lands wing.
- Persian Gulf basin. Bahrain stands in the basin the oasis reading puts at the centre of the old plain.
- Drowned Lands. The wing that gathers the Ice Age shelves.
Considered, and not given a room
A room is for a place with a real open question and enough published evidence to weigh both sides. These were looked at and left as notes, so they are not invisible.
- Qal'at al-Bahrain is the ancient harbour capital, a separate World Heritage property, the port beside the burial mounds. The capital’s sequence is long and published. The open question in this pass is the cemetery’s scale and the paradise name, not the harbour wall. UNESCO, Qal'at al-Bahrain.