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:
Resafa
Resafa or Sergiopolis: ancient town in eastern Syria, important Christian pilgrim town, fortified by the Byzantine emperor Justinian (r.527-565). It is in the desert about thirty kilometers west of Raqqa and thirty-five kilometers south of the river Euphrates.Early History …Rujm al-Malfouf
Rujm al-Malfouf: Iron Age fortification in the western suburbs of Amman (Jordan), built by the Ammonites. Rujm al-Malfouf: the tower itself The…
Rujm al-Malfouf: the tower itself |
Rujm al-Malfouf, storerooms and tower |
Rujm al-Malfouf, Storerooms |
Rujm al-Malfouf, Storerooms |
Salamis (Cyprus)
Salamis (Greek Σαλαμίς): port on eastern Cyprus, just north of modern Famagusta. Personification of Salamis (with a mural crown) Salamis is, essentially,…
Salamis, Royal Tombs, Ivory |
Sam'al (Zincirli)
Sam'al: one of the Iron Age kingdoms in northern Syria, modern Zincirli in Turkey.History One of the excavations At the beginning of the…Samaria
Samaria (Hebrew Šomron): residence of the kings of ancient Israel, and provincial capital in the Assyrian, Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Seleucid empires. The Jews of Jerusalem did not accept the religious ideas of the people of Samaria, but acknowledged that the…
Samaria |
Samaria ivories |