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:
![]() Kurkh, Stela of Šalmaneser III |
Lebanon Mountains
Lebanon Mountains: the central part of the mountain range along eastern Mediterranean. The northern summits are referred to as Mount Lebanon. …
![]() The snow-clad Lebanon |
Leiden, Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden
The Dutch national collection of antiquities has, of course, many archaeological finds from the Netherlands, but there are also an excellent Egyptological collection, a small set of Etruscan objects, and good collections of Greek and Roman art. The department of…Lykos (Nahr al-Kalb)
Lykos or Nahr al-Kalb: river, northeast of modern Beirut, best known for a large series of rock inscriptions, both ancient and modern. Nahr al-Kalb The Lykos…