🐪 Back to Base Camp

🏛️ Dilmun Burial Mounds

Archaeology & Antiquity Bahrain Asia

🏛️ Dilmun Burial Mounds
Royal Mound 8 — Early Bronze Age funerary monument in Bahrain


🕐 3 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 01:30

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📋 Fast Facts
  • Royal Mound 8 dates to the Early Dilmun period, approximately 2050–1750 BC
  • Constructed from local limestone with a distinctive two-story structure
  • Located in A'ali village, western Bahrain; part of a UNESCO-listed complex of thousands of mounds
  • Features an outer ring wall, central chamber, upper chamber accessible by staircase, and evidence of ritual or funerary offerings

Royal Mound 8 is a significant component of the Dilmun Burial Mounds, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ...

🗺️ View on map

Explore nearby hidden corners on the interactive map

↑ Back to top