COVER PAGE -- THE EXPERIENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1: THE ARABIAN GULF IN ANTIQUITY -- ON THE LOCATION OF DILMUN -- THE ARABIAN GULF -- THE CITIES OF SUMER -- THE LATER HISTORY OF THE GULF -- THE GREEKS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE LEVANTINE CITIES -- THE GULF IN THE MODERN AGE -- 2: THE PROGRESS OF GULF ARCHAEOLOGY -- 3: CLIMATE, SEA-LEVELS, MAN AND HIS COMPANIONS -- GEOLOGIC ORIGINS -- CLIMATE -- THE FAUNAL RECORD -- SEA-LEVELS -- 4: DILMUN, THE ANCIENT CULTURE OF THE GULF -- THE FIRST CITIES -- MESOPOTAMIAN ORIGINS -- THE ARABIAN NEOLITHIC -- THE UBAID -- THE SUMERIANS -- THE INVENTION OF WRITING -- THE SUMERIANS AND TRADE -- THE GULF AND SUMERIAN ORIGINS -- ERIDU -- THE SUMERIAN TEMPLE -- THE CITY-STATE -- THE ART OF SUMER -- ELAM -- 5: THE POLITY OF THE ANCIENT GULF -- URUK -- THE KINGSHIP -- UR AND THE 'ROYAL TOMBS' -- SARGON OF AKKAD -- UR-NANSHE AND GUDEA OF LAGASH -- THE FALL OF SUMER -- THE SECOND MILLENNIUM -- THE AHLAMU STEAL THE DATES -- DILMUN'S LATER HISTORY -- ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE GULF -- 6: THE MYTHS OF SUMER AND DILMUN -- THE GODS OF SUMER -- ENKI -- ENKI AND THE WORLD ORDER -- ENKI AND NINHURSAG -- ENKI AND OANNES -- 7: BAHRAIN The Blessed Island -- THE DURAND INSCRIPTION -- THE GOD ENSHAG-INZAK -- DILMUN 'THE HOLY LAND' -- THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF DILMUN -- THE ARCHITECTURE OF DILMUN -- QALA'AT AL-BAHRAIN-THE 'CITY' OF DILMUN -- THE TEMPLE COMPLEX AT BARBAR -- THE DIVINITIES OF BARBAR -- TEMPLE OVALS -- THE ARCHITECTURE OF BARBAR -- OTHER BAHRAIN SITES -- AL MARKH -- DIRAZ EAST -- THE BURIAL MOUNDS -- THE 'ROYAL TOMBS' AT AALI -- AN EARLY SETTLEMENT AT SAR -- MEDINAT HAMED -- AL-HAJJAR -- ON THE SANCTITY OF DILMUN -- 8: DILMUN'S NEIGHBOURING LANDS -- FAILAKA ISLAND -- EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA -- QATAR -- THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

THE SULTANATE OF OMAN -- 9: THE MERCHANTS OF DILMUN -- TRADE -- THE MECHANISMS OF ANCIENT COMMERCE -- DILMUN: ENTREPÔT OF THE GULF -- THE INDUS VALLEY -- THE ROLE OF THE MERCHANT -- THE ARCHIVES OF TRADE -- EA-NASIR, THE DILMUN MERCHANT -- SEALS AND SEALINGS -- THE SEALS OF THE GULF -- THE FAILAKA SEALS -- 10: GILGAMESH, THE GULF AND THE LAND OF THE LIVING -- 11: THE ENIGMA OF DILMUN -- THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE ARABIAN GULF 7000-300 BC -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- 1: THE ARABIAN GULF IN ANTIQUITY -- 2: THE PROGRESS OF GULF ARCHAEOLOGY -- 3: CLIMATE, SEA-LEVELS, MAN AND HIS COMPANIONS -- 4: DILMUN, THE CULTURE OF THE ANCIENT GULF -- 5: THE POLITY OF THE ANCIENT GULF -- 6: THE MYTHS OF SUMER AND DILMUN -- 7: BAHRAIN: THE BLESSED ISLAND -- 8: DILMUN'S NEIGHBOURING LANDS -- 9: THE MERCHANTS OF DILMUN -- 10: GILGAMESH, THE GULF AND THE LAND OF THE LIVING -- 11: THE ENIGMA OF DILMUN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.