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A 3,300-Year-Old Face Emerges from a Dilmun Grave in Bahrain
In the packed earth of a Middle Bronze Age burial in southern Bahrain, archaeologists have come face to face with something rarely encountered in Gulf archaeology: a crafted faience head, placed beside the dead more than three millennia ago. Discovered at the Hilla (Al-Hillah) site, the object is as striking as it is enigmatic—and may…