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Will visit the Museum soon and if photo taking allowed. Will share it here ![]()
FOURTEEN coffins dating back 2,500 years have been uncovered from an empty plot of land in Karranah.
Archaeologists also found skeletal remains alongside traditional funeral objects of the time such as jars, small pottery and beads. They have now been moved to the Bahrain National Museum after being carefully excavated.
"With this site, we went to carry out the studies and found that it was significant, so we began the excavation. "What we found was extraordinary. “There are clay coffins, shaped a little like bathtubs and are different from each other.” "They’re from the late Dilmun period, so approximately 2,500 years old. "We have found skeletons, jars, small pottery and beads in the coffins, which are traditional funeral objects of the time. "We’ve found 14 coffins and are now satisfied that the land doesn’t have any other significance.
"We worked really hard at the site to conserve the coffins to ensure their safe transfer to the National Museum. “Some of them were very fragile and broken so we had to be careful. We had to make sure not to damage them further.”
“It seems to have been used as a garden and the evidence suggests that the individual or small village using it was extremely wealthy,” said Mr Al Mahari. "They had three pools or fountains, two of which were diamond-shaped and six madbasas (a room used to store dates in order to produce syrup).
“In order for someone to have that many medbasas, you would have to own a lot of land that would yield dates from palm trees.” "It is not normal, especially for that period, to have those riches. “It’s approximately 400 to 600 years old, from the Islamic period.”
It is now open to the public.
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