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Kuwait
/ History / Prehistoric Era
The
earliest evidence of human presence in Kuwait is the existence
of Mesolithic tools, dating from about 8,000 B.C. found in Burgan
and Wafra. There are no signs of a later Neolithic culture in
Kuwait.
However,
excavations on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka strongly suggest
that Failaka was part of the Bronze Age Dilium civilization and
a center of international trade between 2200 and 1800 B.C.
The Battle
of Chains was won by the Muslim warrior Khalid Ibn Al-Walid against
Persians in the Name of Islam at Kadhima on the north side of
Kuwait Bay in 632. For a thousand years thereafter Kuwait was
part of a nameless region. Then the seeds of nationhood were planted
when ancestors of old Kuwait families arrived to establish their
settled community.
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