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Island of ancient history
Bronze Age temples, a Greek fortress and quiet beaches
Twenty kilometres off the coast, Failaka has been settled for more than four thousand years — by Dilmun traders, by Alexander the Great’s successors and by an early Christian community — and makes Kuwait’s most rewarding day trip.
Failaka lies at the mouth of Kuwait Bay, about 20 km from Kuwait City and some 50 km from where the Tigris and Euphrates reach the Gulf. That position made it a prize for every power that traded along the Gulf, and archaeologists have uncovered layer after layer of its past.
On the south-west coast are the remains of Bronze Age settlements of the Dilmun civilisation, and a Hellenistic fortress with a temple from the time when the island was known to the Greeks as Ikaros. Inland, at Al-Qusur, lie the foundations of an early Christian settlement with churches.
Until 1990 Failaka was the longest continuously inhabited place in Kuwait; the island was occupied and heavily damaged during the Gulf War, and its villages were never fully resettled. Today visitors come for the archaeology, the open landscape and the beaches.
Failaka Island