📜 UNESCO World Heritage Site, these 4,000-year-old burial mounds showcase ancient Dilmun civilization.
🔍 Thousands of tombs, varying in size and complexity, form a unique landscape across 21 locations.
🗿 Explore ancient burial traditions and Bronze Age history
🚶 Witness a surreal landscape of thousands of mounds
🏛️ See artifacts in Bahraini museums (some from these mounds)
🌍 Visit a significant archaeological site and trade hub
🚧 Conservation is controversial, with threats from housing projects
🚶♀️ Some mounds are underwhelming individually, but impressive collectively
📍 The A'ali location is recommended and reachable by public transport.
🗺️ Use an offline map as mounds are scattered across the city.
🏛️ Visit the National Museum of Bahrain for related displays.
💰 Free entry to the burial mounds.
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