This week, Amber takes Anna on a guided tour of her beloved Arabia. Learn about the varied mountains, deserts, and oases that are nowhere near as empty or inactive as Western explorers might have you believe. We examine the archaeology of Tell Abraq, get scammed by a guy named Ea-Nasir, solve the mystery of Magan (hint: not actually a mystery), and share insights from skeletal remains about community care and compassion thousands of years ago. Disappointingly, we still don't know what Dilmun onions are.

Links

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Theatrical Trailer (YouTube)
• The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (via WorldCat)
• The Seafaring Merchants of Ur (Journal of the American Oriental Society)
• Meet The Worst Businessman Of The 18th Century BC (Forbes)
• Ancient Magan: The Secrets of Tell Abraq (Ancient Ports - Ports Antiques)
• Before the Emirates: an Archaeological and Historical Account of Developments in the Region c. 5000 BC to 676 AD (from United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective)
• Lesley of Tell Abraq (Bronze Age 2400 - 2000 BC) (Sketchfab)
• Bioarchaeology of compassion: Exploring extreme cases of pathology in a Bronze Age skeletal population from Tell Abraq, U.A.E. (Digital Scholarship@UNLV)
• Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun (UNESCO)
• Looking for Dilmun (Archive.org)
• Young Woman With Disabilities Found In Artifact-Packed Bronze Age Burial (Forbes) - cn, images of human remains

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