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:
Opus Africanum
Opus Africanum: modern name for an ancient building technique. Opus Africanum in Bulla Regia The type of masonry shown in the photos…Orontes (Nahr al-Asi)
Orontes: river in Syria, modern Nahr al-Asi. The Orontes and Tell Kadesh The Orontes is one of the most famous rivers of…
Orontes, Source |
Ovid on the Abduction of Europa
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Europa (mosaic from Byblos) To…Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
General museum of art and archaeology. There are 3 items in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: …Palmyra
Palmyra or Tadmor: oasis in the desert between Damascus and the Euphrates, important trade center, and capital of a semi-indepent state in the third century CE.Bronze Age …Paris, Institut du monde arabe
Institute for the study of the Arabian world, with a very nice museum. Antiquities from all over the ancient Near East and the Maghreb. There are 4 items in…Paris, Louvre
It is hard to write a review of the Louvre in Paris, because it is one of the world’s largest museums. There are many departments, and each one of them might, in its field, have been a museum of the…
Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Syrians |
Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Syrians |
Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Syrians |
Petra
Petra (Greek Πέτρα, "rock"): capital of the Nabataeans.History The "treasury" (in fact a tomb) Capital of the Nabataeans, created by a wadi;…