De danske ekspeditioner til sheikdømmerne langs Den Arabiske Golf blev i 1953 sat i værk af professor P.V. Glob. År efter år drog arkæologer, etnografer, arkitekter, filmfolk og kunstnere afsted for at udforske landenes historie og kultur. Op af sandet dukkede forsvundne byer og templer fra en 4000 år gammel civilisation, oldtidslandet Dilmun, som ifølge myterne var Paradisets Have.

The Danish expeditions to the sheikdoms along the Arabian Gulf were started in 1953 by Professor P.V. Glob. Year after year, archaeologists, ethnographers, architects, film-makers and artists travelled to the Gulf to investigate the culture and history of the area. From the sand emerged vanished cities and temples of a 4,000-year-old civilization in the ancient land of Dilmun, which according to the myths was the Garden of Eden.