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Looking for Dilmun

1970; Oxford University Press; Volume: 75; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1848037

1937-5239

Tom Jones, Geoffrey Bibby,

Eurasian Exchange Networks

The two then went south to the U.A.E. and Oman, where they were the first to excavate and identify the similarly long-lost Magan civilization, which was Dilmun's supplier of the copper ingots transshipped to Ur and elsewhere in Mesopotamia. Bibby’s excavation and identification of Dilmun and Magan clarified the sketchily understood trading relationship among Mesopotamia, Dilmun, Magan, and Meluhha (the Indus Valley civilization, a.k.a. Harappa).