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…Aššurnasirpal II's Expedition to the Lebanon
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Aššurnasirpal King Aššurnasirpal II (r.883-859)…Tyre's Tribute to Šalmaneser III
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Tyre's tribute on the…The Nimrud Slab
Nimrud Slab or Kalah Orthostat (797 BCE): inscription by Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, in which he describes his successes in the west. …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…The Sennacherib Prism
Sennacherib Prism: text of the Annals of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, famous for a reference to the siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE also mentioned in the Bible. …Esarhaddon's Nahr al-Kalb Inscription
Esarhaddon's Nahr al-Kalb Inscription: inscription, just north of Beirut in modern Lebanon, documenting the Assyrian conquest of Egypt in 671 BCE.Assyria and Egypt …Esarhaddon Fragmentary Text K
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…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…Aššurbanipal Cylinder C
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Aššurbanipal In the final years…Treaty of Esarhaddon with Ba'al I of Tyre
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Esarhaddon (Nahr al-Kalb) The Assyrian…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,…