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:
The so-called "Tomb of Hiram" |
Hatra
Hatra: city in Mesopotamia, buffer state between the Roman Empire and its neighbors in the east, the Parthian and Sasanian Empires. …
Hatra, Eleventh temple, Aramaic Inscription |
Hazor, Head of a pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty |
Heliopolis (Baalbek)
Baalbek or Heliopolis (Greek: Ἡλιούπολις, "sun city"): town in the northern Bekaa valley, site of the largest sanctuary in the Roman world.Origins …Herodotus on Sesostris' Reliefs
Sesostris' Reliefs: two reliefs, presented by Herodotus as evidence that a great Egyptian king once conquered almost the whole world. The…Herodotus on the First Circumnavigation of Africa
The Greek researcher and storyteller Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) was the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses and Darius I the Great, culminating…Herodotus on the temple of Melqart
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.The Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus visited Tyre in the mid-fifth century BCE. In Herodotus' Histories 2.44, he offers…High Place of Worship
High Place of Worship: modern name for the ancient mountain sanctuaries in the Near East. Petra, High Place of Worship Although the…
Iron ore |
Israel
Kingdom of Israel: the northern of the two Jewish states after the kingdom of Solomon was divided. Israel was a regional superpower, but unable to retain its independence in the face of Assyrian imperialism. The name "Israel" survived as the…Issus (Kinet Höyük)
Issus (Hittite Izziya, Greek ᾽Ἱσσός): town in southern Turkey, best known for the famous battle in November 333 BCE, in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III Codomannus. The town has been identified with the ruins near modern Kinet Höyük. …