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.

More on history:

• Early History of Independence
• Independence under British protection
• The Discovery of Oil Era
• International Recognition
• The Troubled Times
• The Gulf War