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:
Copper ore |
The Tell al-Rimah Stela
Tell al-Rimah Stela (797 BCE): inscription by Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, in which he describes his successes in the west. Adad-Nirari…Cybele
Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη): Anatolian mother goddess, also worshipped in Greece and the Roman Empire. Ostia, Statue of Cybele The Great Mother was the…Archaic Cyprus
Cyprus (Greek Κύπρος): large island in the eastern Mediterranean, colonized by Phoenicians and Greeks.Dark Age Colonization Aeolic capital from Idalion. Similar capitals have…Damascus
Damascus (Aramaic דמשק; Greek Δαμασκός): important city in the ancient Near East.Bronze Age Damascus, "Street which is called Straight" Mentioned for the…Damascus, National Museum
Large collection of archaeological finds from the Bronze Age (a/o Ebla), from the Iron Age, from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, and many finds from the Umayyad age. The frescoes from the synagogue of Dura Europos are here. Photography is…Deir 'Alla Inscription
Deir 'Alla Inscription: inscription, found in the Iron Age town of Deir 'Alla, mentioning the Biblical prophet Balaam. Deir 'Alla Inscription Deir…
Deir 'Alla Inscription |
Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum
A nice museum with a good collection, documenting the excavations in the valley of the Euphrates in eastern Syria. I thought it was the best archaeological museum in the country. Among the objects are cuneiform tablets from Mari and finds…
Dibon, Mesha Stela |
Dura Europos, Temple of Adonis |
Edomites
Edom: Iron Age kingdom, directly south of the Dead Sea, situated in modern Jordan and Israel. In Greek, it is called Idumea.Bronze Age …