Asia · Bahrain

Forte de Barém – also known as the Qal'at al-Bahrain

unreviewed candidate · Tier B · provisional

Qal’at al-Bahrain combines a Portuguese-period fort with a much older archaeological landscape. It stands on a mound accumulated through millennia of occupation at the former capital of Dilmun; the visible fort and the settlement beneath it belong to different historical layers.

Photographs & plans

Country

Bahrain

Coordinates

26.23361, 50.52056

Reported date

2300 BC

Condition

In ruins

Current use

Unknown

Research confidence

provisional. Overview checked against UNESCO and CyArk. Their chronology wording differs; no single construction year is asserted here.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qal'at_al-Bahrain
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1192/
• https://www.cyark.org/projects/qalat-al-bahrain

This catalogue entry is a research record. Unknown fields are left unknown; a star-shaped outline alone does not establish date, origin, or function.