Tell F6 on Failaka Island
Kuwaiti-Danish Excavations 2008-2012
A part of the series Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs Skrifter (92) , and the subject area Archaeology
Edited by
Flemming Højlund and
Aiysha Abu-Laban
With contributions by
Flemming Højlund,
Aiysha Abu-Laban,
Gunnar Sperveslage,
Holly Pittman,
Jesper Eidem,
Anna Hilton,
Ann Andersson,
Jonathan M. Kenoyer,
Thomas Van de Velde,
Lisa Yeomans and
Jan Heinemeier
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In the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC, the Arabian Gulf was an important waterway linking the large cities and states of Mesopotamia and Iran with Southeast Arabia and the Indus Valley. Trade along the Lower Sea, as the Gulf was named, demanded supporting stations, and civilizations grew and declined with the fortunes of this trade. In the 1950s, Danish investigations along the southern shores of the Gulf discovered remains of two of these ancient civilazations, Dilmun and Makkan (Bibby 1969). Survey and excavation in Kuwait beginning in 1958 revealed that the upper Gulf was an important part of Dilmun in the early 2nd millennium. Both before, during and after the flourishing of the Dilmun civilization the island of Failaka located off the Kuwait mainland formed an important role in several Near Eastern trade networks with Mesopotamia as the dominant partner.
