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Dilmun
Sign in to saveDilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian: 15px, later , = ; ) was an ancient East Semitic–speaking civilization in Eastern Arabia mentioned from the 3rd millennium BC onwards, covering the transition from Prehistoric Arabia into the historic period. Based on contextual evidence, it was located in the Persian Gulf, on a trade route between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilisation, close to the sea and to artesian springs. Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Kuwait, and eastern Saudi Arabia.
Key facts
- Ancient site.location
- Eastern Arabia
- Ancient site.region
- Northern Governorate
- Ancient site.image
- Moyen_Orient_3mil_aC.svg
- Ancient site.image_size
- 350px
- Ancient site.caption
- Location of foreign lands for the Mesopotamians, including Elam, Magan, Dilmun, Marhashi and Meluhha
- Ancient site.type
- Ancient
- Ancient site.part_of
- Eastern Arabia
- Ancient site.epochs
- Bronze Age
- Language.name
- Dilmunite
- Language.states
- Dilmun
- Language.region
- Bahrain, Kuwait and eastern Saudi Arabia
- Language.era
- First half of the second millennium BC
- Language.familycolor
- Afro-Asiatic
- Language.fam1
- Afro-Asiatic
- Language.fam2
- Semitic
- Language.fam3
- East Semitic?
- Language.iso3
- none
- Language.glotto
- none
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Moyen Orient 3mil aC.svg
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- Commons category
- Dilmun
- inception
- 3000-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0500-00-00
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Kingdom of Dilmun
- Dilmun under foreign rule
- People and language
- Mythology
- Location of Dilmun
- Garden of Eden theory
- Known rulers
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Dilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian: 15px, later , = ; ) was an ancient East Semitic–speaking civilization in Eastern Arabia mentioned from the 3rd millennium BC onwards, covering the transition from Prehistoric Arabia into the historic period. Based on contextual evidence, it was located in the Persian Gulf, on a trade route between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilisation, close to the sea and to artesian springs. Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Kuwait, and eastern Saudi Arabia.
The great commercial and trading connections between Mesopotamia and Dilmun were strong and profound to the point where Dilmun was a central figure to the Sumerian creation myth. Dilmun was described in the saga of Enki and Ninhursag as pre-existing in paradisiacal state, where predators do not kill, pain and diseases are absent, and people do not get old.