KUWAIT: In a first-of-its-kind cultural and scientific venture, rocks from Kuwait’s Failaka Island were launched into space aboard a SpaceBy X capsule early Tuesday. The Advance Space Civilization ...

Failaka may seem like a quiet island today, but its soil holds secrets that stretch across millennia. It was once the northernmost outpost of the Dilmun Kingdom—an enigmatic civilization that linked ...

Among the most important discoveries in the island was a house containing 12 rooms and a Greek fortress where a number of Greek Gods' statues were found. The first appearance of Failaka on maps was in ...

At Al-Qusur in the center of the island, archeologists have uncovered two churches, built at an uncertain date, around which grows a large settlement. Failaka was then continuously inhabited ...

Located in the northern part of Failaka Island overlooking the sea, the site is a settlement that spans multiple historical periods, including pre-Islamic, early Islamic, and late Islamic eras.

Kuwait is hoping that an island which was depopulated when Iraqi forces invaded during the Gulf War could be added to the World Heritage List. Kuwait’s permanent delegation to the UNESCO, Ali Ahmad Al ...

Government instructs Kuwait Municipality to purchase private properties on the island The Kuwait government has requested Kuwait Municipality to “remove all obstacles facing the implementation of the ...

A forgotten sliver of land in the far north of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait’s Failaka Island is home now mostly to camels. Its only town is a sprawling ruin pockmarked with bullet holes and debris ...

Step onto Failaka Island in the Persian Gulf, which was seized by Iraqi forces during the invasion of Kuwait. Bullet-riddled and abandoned buildings mark this remnant of the gulf war.