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PATRON
                 Mis Highness Shaikh Isa hin Sulman Al-Khalifa
                 Amir of the State of Bahrain.













                 Editorial








                 THIS year we have to thank His Excellency Tariq    Town site as well as at the Museum in the proces­
                  Al-Moavyed. the Minister of Information, for      sing of skeletal material.
                  kindly allowing us the use of the Ministry's printing   Amongst our many distinguished speakers,
                 press in publishing Dilrnun 11, and we have celeb­  we were privileged to hear Tim Severin, newly
                  rated the appearance of this issue by breaking with   returned from China, tell of his epic Sindbad voy­
                  tradition and giving it a new cover.              age in the ‘Sohar.
                     Articles in this issue centre on Bahrain and       Dr. Abdul Latif Kanoo, our President, has
                  range from an assessment of the population size   produced the third in a highly successful series of
                 based on skeletal analysis during the Dilmun       BHAS calendars, featuring the Islamic theme in
                 period; a look at the dental problems of that time;   maps, miniatures and calligraphy. Some 3000 of
                  a re-appraisal of the exact geographical location of   these are sold each year. Steady sales are also
                  Dilmun, to an account of the great merchants of   reported of the BHAS guidebook, “The Islands of
                  the Gulf during the Middle Ages and the recent    Bahrain”.
                  history of postal services in Bahrain. We are         The BHAS library has continued to expand,
                  deeply grateful to our contributors who so wil­   thanks to the many individuals and institutions
                  lingly spare the time from their busy working     who send us material in exchange for “ Dilmun''.
                  schedules to answer our requests for material.        On the archaeological scene, teams from the
                     The centre page print of the Portuguese forts   Bahrain Department of Antiquities, from France
                  in Bahrain of 1635 shows the fort at Qala'at al   and Australia have been working at Qala'at al
                  Bahrain with a water-filled moat and an interest­  Bahrain, Barbar South, Sar and Hamad Town.
                  ing staircase ramp at its main entrance. The Arad   1982 saw the first of a series of archaeological
                  Fort at Muhurraq appears to be either two         reports on Bahrain to be published by the       m
                  storeyed or double walled.                        Department of Antiquities.
                      It has been a busy year for the Bahrain Histor­   BHAS is both pleased and proud to have con­
                  ical and Archaeological Society during which we   tributed in part to the preservation of Bahrain's
                  have provided volunteers to help at the Hamad     heritage.




















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