Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

In the epic Enki and Ninhursag, Enki, as lord of Ab or fresh water ( also the Sumerian word for semen ), is living with his wife in the paradise of Dilmun where

::" The land of Dilmun is a pure place, the land of Dilmun is a clean place,

:: The land of Dilmun is a clean place, the land of Dilmun is a bright place ;

:: He who is alone laid himself down in Dilmun,

It is believed to be the outermost point of the ancient civilization of Dilmun, which was centered in what is present-day Bahrain.

The earliest mentioning of Dilmun is Mesopotamian sources was in the Early Dynastic III Period, when Ur-Nanshe ( circa 2520 BC ) proclaimed that ;

However, the exact location of Dilmun is unclear, it might be associated with the islands of Bahrain, Eastern Province, Qatar and nearby Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.

In his book Greek Religion, Walter Burkert notes the connection with the motif of far-off Dilmun: " Thus Achilles is transported to the White Isle, which may refer to Mount Teide on Tenerife, whose volcano is often snowcapped and as the island was sometimes called the white isle by explorers, and becomes the Ruler of the Black Sea, and Diomedes becomes the divine lord of an Adriatic island ".

After another break, the text resumes, the flood is apparently over, and Ziusudra is prostrating himself before An ( Sky ) and Enlil ( Lordbreath ), who give him " breath eternal " and take him to dwell in Dilmun.

This characteristic is especially true of the region of Bahrain, whose name in Arabic means " two seas ", and which is thought to be the site of Dilmun, the original site of the Sumerian creation beliefs.

Dilmun or Telmun ( Arabic: دلمون ) is a land mentioned by Mesopotamian civilizations as a trade partner, a source of the metal copper, and an entrepôt of the Mesopotamia-to-Indus Valley Civilization trade route.

Although the exact location of Dilmun is unclear, it might be associated with the islands of Bahrain, the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and nearby Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.

It is also noted that Gilgamesh had to pass through Mount Mashu to reach Dilmun in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is usually identified with the whole of the parallel Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges, with the narrow gap between these mountains constituting the tunnel.

Rich of various periods, have been discovered to have sought burial in Bahrein, identified with Sumerian Dilmun.

Bahrain has been proposed as the possible site of Dilmun, a land mentioned by Mesopotamians as a trade partner, source of raw material, copper, and entrepot of the Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization trade route.

One inscription states that ships of Dilmun ( Bahrain ) brought him wood as tribute from foreign lands.

Meanwhile, Esarhaddon was waging war in the land of Bazu, situated opposite of the island of " Dilmun " ( Bahrain ), probably Qatar, " where snakes and scorpions cover the ground like ants "-a dry land of salt deserts.

Despite the scholarly consensus that ancient Dilmun encompasses three modern locations: ( 1 ) the eastern littoral of Arabia from the vicinity of modern Kuwait to Bahrain ; ( 2 ) the island of Bahrain ; ( 3 ) the island of Failaka east of Kuwait, few have taken into account the radically different geography of the basin represented by the Persian Gulf before its reflooding as sea levels rose about 6000 BCE ; the earliest known site is Qal ' at al-Bahrain which is dated no earlier than c. 2200 BC according to Flemming Hojlund.

Dilmun, furthermore, is said to lie " in the east where the sun rises ," a situation that does not apply to the eastern Arabian littoral, Failaka or Bahrain, all of which lie south of Sumer and Eridu.

* Bahrain National Museum's hall of Dilmun

The Ahlamû (= wanderers ) are first mentioned in the el-Amarna letters alluding to the king of Babylon ; the presence of the Ahlamû are also attested in Assyria, Nippur and even at Dilmun ( Bahrain ); Shalmaneser I ( 1274-1245 BC ) defeated the Shattuara, King of Mitanni and his Hittite and Ahlamû mercenaries are mentioned in the Jazirah.

Dilmun was a trade distribution center for goods originating that might be in islands of Bahrain, Eastern Province ( Saudi Arabia ), Oman, or the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.

Direct contacts ceased even during the Mature Harappan phase between these two centers and Oman and Bahrain, Magan and Dilmun had become intermediaries.

Muharraq's origins are ancient, going back to the time of Dilmun some 5, 000 years ago, but it came to prominence in the historical records during the era of Tylos when Bahrain came under domination of the Selucid Greeks, and Muharraq was the centre of a pagan cult dedicated to the shark god, Awal.

Some of the earliest records of the use of the foot come from the Persian Gulf bordered by India ( Meluhha ), Pakistan, Balochistan, Oman ( Makkan ), Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain ( Dilmun ), the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia where in Persian architecture it is a sub division of the Great circle of the earth into 360 degrees.

During the end of the fourth millennium BC, the southern part of the Persian Gulf was dominated by the Dilmun civilization.

Archaeology, however, revealed some early settled cultures: the Dilmun on the Persian Gulf, and Thamud north of the Hejaz.

The " Persian Gulf " types of circular, stamped ( rather than rolled ) seals known from Dilmun, that appear at Lothal in Gujarat, India, and Failaka, as well as in Mesopotamia, are convincing corroboration of the long-distance sea trade.

Discoveries of ruins under the Persian Gulf maybe of Dilmun.

Human habitation dates back at least 7, 000 years when the people of Dilmun — whose civilization radiated up and down the Persian Gulf — established a settlement there.

The shallow basin that now underlies the Gulf was an extensive region of river valley and wetlands during the transition between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the start of the Holocene, which, according to University of Birmingham archaeologist Jeffrey Rose, served as an environmental refuge for early humans during periodic hyperarid climate oscillations, laying the foundations for the legend of Dilmun

* Dilmun Calendar Theory Backed, Gulf Daily News, 11 July 2006

However, in the early epic " Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta ", the main events, which center on Enmerkar's construction of the ziggurats in Uruk and Eridu, are described as taking place in a world " before Dilmun had yet been settled ".

The Dilmun Hill Student Farm is a student-run farm that has been practicing sustainable agriculture on Cornell University's campus since 1996.

He made the ships from Meluhha, the ships from Magan ( and ) the ships from Dilmun tie up alongside the quay of Agade.

The myth of Enlil and Ninlil discusses when Enlil was a young god, he was banished from Dilmun, home of the gods, to Kur, the underworld for raping a goddess named Ninlil.

After fathering three more underworld-deities ( substitutes for Sin ), Enlil was allowed to return to Dilmun.

Nevertheless Dilmun had no water and Enki heard the cries of its Goddess, Ninsikil, and orders the sun-God Utu to bring fresh water from the Earth for Dilmun.

Sumerian mythology had a parallel to the Eden garden in Dilmun, the dwelling-place of the immortals where sickness and death were unknown.

Early inhabitants are often associated with the historical Dilmun Civilisation though the historical records of Dilmun are scanty.

The Qatar Peninsula was close enough to the Dilmun civilization ( ca.

Looking for Dilmun.

She also has elements associated with the goddesses of Myceneae, the Minoans of Crete, and certain Kassite goddesses of the metals trade in Tin, Copper and Bronze between Lothal and Dilmun.