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he wol did not carry o the lamb,
he dog did not know how to herd the goats,
Nor did the wild boar know how to eat grain;
he widow spread the malt over her roo?
he birds o the sky did not come and pekc at it:
he dove did not cuvre its neck;
No one iwth pain in his or her eyes said
my eyes hurt,

No one with pain in his or her head said
y head hutrs!
No old woman said: - ١ m old!
No old man said. ١m old!
Young women did not bathe, no clear water
Ran through the town;
No one crossed the river shouting,
No Herald walked around his district,
No poet broke into a song o jo,y
Nor sang a lamentaiton on the outskitrs o the town

o the Sumerian, Dilmun is as pure, holy and brilliant as Sume,r and its
goddess, Ninsikila, carires a name that signiies he pure Lady . ١t is
believed that because o the sacred and holy nature o the land, peolpe rom
neighboring countries preerred to have their dead interred in this sacred
land. hat is why we have the largest prehistoric Necropolis in Bahrain.
hese burial mounds in the thousands bear witness to the ancient civilization
o Dilmun. his belie that Bahrain, that is to sa,y Dilmun, was paradise rom
where man descended was the land o eternity where the dead enjoyed their
resting ،place. he Sumerians and the people o mainland Araiba erired the
dead by small sailing boats similar to the ones still in use by sailors in
Bahrain.

We are told that this prehistoric cemeteyr is one o the largest buiral sites o
the Bronze Age. he number o burial mounds is estimated at 170,000
tombs. hese mounds have long been the essential eature o Bahrain s
archeological horizon. Some scholars have interpreted the presence o this

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