Archaeologists uncover 4,000-year-old temple on Kuwait’s Failaka Island
Four ancient temples have been discovered on Failaka Island, including two dating to the Dilmun civilization and two from the Hellenistic period.
Archaeologists in Kuwait announced on Sunday the discovery of a Bronze Age temple about 4,000 years old on Failaka Island, roughly 12 miles (19 kilometers) off Kuwait’s coast.
The discovery, made by a joint Kuwaiti-Danish team from Denmark’s Moesgaard Museum, revealed a temple from the Dilmun civilization, one of the earliest known cultures in the Arabian Gulf.
Artifacts found at the site are seen in this image released Oct. 26, 2025. (KUNA)
Mohammad bin Reda, assistant secretary-general for Kuwait’s Antiquities and Museums Sector at the National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature, told the state-run Kuwait News Agency that the newly uncovered temple lies directly beneath another Dilmun-era temple found during an excavation last year at a site known as Tell F6, near the Dilmun palace and temple complex in Failaka’s southwest.
