The Black Snake of Dilmun Springs: An Asian Legend from Bahrain
Long before the modern towers rose from the sands of Bahrain, before the oil wells were drilled and the causeways were built, the island was known by another name, Dilmun. In the ancient texts of Mesopotamia, carved into clay tablets by Sumerian scribes, Dilmun was described as a paradise, a land of purity where the sun always shone warm, where
