The sumerian culture was forced to import raw materials from east. Mesopotamia had a great agriculture richness but needed natural resources like stones, timbers or metals. A lot of these materials came from India, region that the sumerian texts denominate Melubba. The Melubba trade was by land routes, across the Iranian Plateau with caravans or by sea routes, trough the Persian Gulf.
The Sumer sea trade intermediaries were the Dilmun and Magan cultures (the Oman Peninsula and the Bahrein respectively).
These areas developed different cultures from IV millenium, all of them in relation with Mesopotamia, like show the studies that the archeologicals teams have realized in Dilmun and more recently in Magan
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