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:
Byblos, Temple with the obelisks, Gold disk |
Byblos, Temple with the obelisks, Obelisk of Abi Chemou |
Byblos, Temple with the obelisks, Statuette of a deity |
Byblos, Temple with the obelisks, Sword |
Byblos, Temple with the obelisks, Sword, grip |
Byblos, Archaic wall, buttressed wall, Hyksos glacis |
Byblos, Well
Byblos (Hebrew גבל; Greek Βύβλος): one of the oldest cities in the world, occupied from the Neolithic until the Middle Ages, modern Jubayl. …
Carthage, Ivory sphinx, made in Phoenicia |
Chicago, Oriental Institute
The Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has a large collection of finds from excavation in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Syria, and Turkey, Among the most famous objects are the Megiddo Ivories, bronzes from Luristan, a…CM 53 (Chronographic Document concerning Nabonidus)
The Chronographic Document concerning Nabonidus is a cuneiform text that describes events from the second and third years of the reign of Nabonidus (r.556-539). The following chronographic document is a damaged part of what may have been a Babylonian chronicle from…Coele Syria
Coele Syria (Greek Κοίλη Συρία): ancient geographical expression to describe several territories in the Near East. The Bekaa valley, seen from…
Coin from Byblos: Phoenician ship |