Levant

This category covers the area that was once called Canaan, or Beyhn Nahrîn, or Eber Nâri, or Bilad al-Sham, or the Levant, or Greater Syria. In other words, Syria, Jorda, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestine territories.

There are 354 items in Levant:

15th Dynasty (Hyksos)

Fifteenth Dynasty: one of the dynasties of Egypt's Second Intermediary Period, ials known as the Hyksos Kings.Summary During the Thirteenth Dynasty, Egypt loses control of Nubia, and the residence moves from Itj-tawy (unknown) to Thebes In the Second Intermediary Period, Lower Egypt is…

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The Annals of Tiglath-pileser

The Annals of Tiglath-pileser: name of an Assyrian royal inscription, documenting the reign of king Tiglath-pileser III (r.745-722).After an impasse that had lasted for almost a century, the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III (r.745-722) an launched aggressive military policy to the…

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Esarhaddon's Prism B

Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Esarhaddon In the first quarter…

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ABC 5 (Jerusalem Chronicle)

The Chronicle Concerning the Early Years of Nebuchadnezzar II (ABC 5) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient Babylonia. It deals with several subjects, but the reference to the capture of Jerusalem in 597 BCE has attracted most attention,…

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