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29 January 2017 Archeologist Dr. Masashi Abe presents results of the first & second missions at Wadi as-Sail tomorrow
Archeologist Dr. Masashi Abe presents results of the first & second missions at Wadi as-Sail tomorrow

Bahrain National Museum presented as part of its lecture series, a lecture by Dr. Masashi Abe titled “Japanese Archeological Mission at Wadi as-Sail: Preliminary results of the first and second missions”. The lecture was  Sunday 29th of January 2017.

Wadi as Sail is a 4km wadi, which runs from southeast to northwest in the middle of Bahrain. Although the number of burial mounds radically decreased due to the modern urban developments, it is estimated that there were originally over a thousand burial mounds along the wadi. This burial mound field is dated to 2200BC to 2050BC, the Early Dilmun formative phase. The Japanese Archaeological mission started excavations at the site in 2015 to reveal how the Dilmun civilization developed in Bahrain. This lecture will introduce preliminary results of the first and second missions.

Dr. Mashashi Abe (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), is an archaeologist with an interest in the origins of agriculture in the Near East, the origins of pastoral nomads in the Arabian Peninsula, and the Dilmun Civilization.