Bahrain is renowned for a variety of traditional crafts, chief among which is pottery making. The local pottery industry is concentrated at A’ali in the midst of the island’s oldest and largest burial mounds. A variety of traditional items, including money boxes, incense burners and hubble-bubble pipes, are produced using skills and methods passed down [...]
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A’ali Pottery Making
Posted by Jamal AlYousif on November 16, 2008
http://www.bahrain360.tv/archives/23
A’ali Burial Mounds
There are approximately 170,000 burial mounds in Bahrain, the majority dating back to the second and third centuries BC but with some as recent as 2000 years old. Bahrain is considered to be the site of the largest prehistoric cemetery in the world, and the sheer number of burial mounds has led archaeologists to speculate [...]
Posted by Jamal AlYousif on November 16, 2008
http://www.bahrain360.tv/archives/18
