Please click here for Dilmun possibly being Umm Daleimin by Qurnah on the Shatt al Arab River in Iraq
           

Below, Date Palms on an island surrounded by a lagoon-marsh, note the tall reeds near the water's edge, also the trees among the Date Palms. The house is made of marsh reeds in a style going back to 3rd millennium BCE times. Location: the marshes of Lower Mesopotamia where I understand Dilmun to be located. (cf. p. 51 for the below photo. Michael Roaf. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York. Facts on File. 1990)
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