Bahrain, the main island, covers an area of 562 square kilometers and has more than 654.38+07,000 graves, which is called "the island of thousands of graves".
The world's largest prehistoric burial forest entrenched in northern Bahrain is located in the west of Manama, the capital, stretching for dozens of miles and covering an area of more than 30 square kilometers. Man-made mounds, neatly arranged, are very spectacular. Seen from the plane, it looks like a thousand undulating waves. 1879, the British first excavated, only to know that these mounds are graves.
Interestingly, these tombs are layered, up to 10 meter, and several stories high. Judging from more than 70 tombs that have been excavated, the historical upper limit of ancient tombs is in the bronze age of 3000 BC. It can be inferred that for thousands of years, the graves of predecessors were buried by sand, and later generations were reburied on it, thus forming this amazing landscape. Under the tomb and near the tomb forest, the ruins of villages and towns where the ancients lived together were also found.
The ancient Bahrainis left no history books, and the ancient history of Bahrain is still a mystery. However, it can be seen from these ancient tombs that ancient Bahrain was a prosperous city with a large population and splendid civilization.
There are two kinds of ancient tombs in Bahrain: most of them are single tombs, which are relatively simple and may be used to bury civilians; There are not many tombs buried together, and they are probably all buried by the upper class. The tomb of Shuangmu is 4.6 meters above the ground and 20 meters in diameter. They have a wealth of funerary objects, including the bones of sheep, antelopes and dogs, a large number of striped pottery pots, red glazed vases, metal spears and daggers, as well as gold ornaments to ward off evil spirits, bronzes and silverware engraved with exquisite patterns, ornaments made of ostrich eggshells and small boxes made of ivory.
These two underground city ruins are as old as Babylon more than 4000 years ago. The late cultural relics unearthed on the surface include Indian pottery, lapis lazuli products along the Mediterranean coast, ivory products in East Africa, lamps and bowls, lanterns, hand-grindstones and ancient coins in China, indicating that foreign trade here was very developed at that time.
It can also be seen from the ancient books of Arab countries that around 3000 BC, the original State of Dearmont has been formed here. The island's rich springs, lush oases and shallow beaches rich in pearls and mussels attracted mainland residents to settle on the island, which was once very prosperous. However, from 2795 BC to 2739 BC, Sumerians in the two river basins tried to open the trade channel from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, and destroyed the capital of Chulmon several times, which led to the destruction of civilization here and took a long time to rebuild the city. In 65438 BC+0565438 BC+08 BC-65438 BC+0024 BC, an independent country was formed here. Around 1000 BC, the anti-Nikki people in the eastern Mediterranean conquered Bahrain and built it into the entrepot trade center of the Persian Gulf, which brought Bahrain a second prosperity.
At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the new kingdom of Babylon dominated the Middle East, the trade routes moved to the Red Sea, Bahrain gradually declined, and the Phoenicians left the Persian Gulf. It was not until 1 century that a new Arab country emerged in Bahrain, with Manama as its capital, and later became the trade center of the Persian Gulf region.
In 309-379 AD, the Persian kingdom attacked Bahrain continuously, and finally it took a year to land on the island and break the city, almost killing the Arabs. Cities were razed to the ground, wells were blocked, ships were burned, trees were cut down, and Bahrain became a "ghost island". It was not until 622 AD that the Arabs recovered Bahrain and Manama was revived. In 894 AD, the islanders revolted and declared their independence from the Arab caliphate, and Bahrain entered the strongest and most prosperous period in history.
In A.D. 1057- 1058, the caliph crusaded against Bahrain and slaughtered "pagans". All towns were destroyed and orchards and palm trees were set on fire, which led to the destruction of Manama and other cities again. Later, as a small emirate, Bahrain began to surrender to the Sultanate of Oman and later became a colony of Portugal and Britain. Independence was not achieved until 197 1.
Many ancient mysteries in Bahrain have been buried under layers of graves because of their ups and downs.