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Magan (also Makkan〔(Boats of the World )〕) was an ancient region which was referred to in Sumerian cuneiform texts of around 2300 BC and existed to 550 BC as a source of copper and diorite for Mesopotamia. The location of Magan is not known with certainty, but most of the archeological and geological evidence suggests that Magan was part of what is now Oman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Digging in the Land of Magan )〕 However, some archaeologists place it in the region of Yemen known as Ma'in,〔F. Hommel, Ethnologie und Geographie des alten Orients, (Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft von W. Otto, III. Abtl. I, Teil, Bd. I, Munich 1926), 550, 578 ff.〕 in the south of Upper Egypt, in Nubia or the Sudan, and others as part of today's Iran or Pakistan. With the disappearance of trade from the Indus region, the copper from Magan was later replaced by copper imports from ancient Cyprus. Trade was common between Magan and Ur before the reigns of the Gutian kings over Ur. After they were deposed, Ur-Nammu of Ur restored the roads and trade resumed between the two nations (c. 2100 BC).〔Hamblin, William J. ''Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC''. New York: Routledge, 2006.〕 ==See also== * Dilmun * Meluhha * Archaeology of Oman * Al Sufouh Archaeological Site 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magan (civilization)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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