We know what the oldest civilizations in the world are thanks to archaeology, but there are many others we are only just discovering. Throughout human history, forgotten civilizations that shaped ...

This article was originally published with the title “ A Forgotten Civilization of the Persian Gulf ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 203 No. 4 (October 1960), p. 62 doi:10.1038 ...

and history traces the origin of the carving and in doing so tells the story of a forgotten civilization and of a people who inhabited one of the most remote places on Earth.