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:
Samaria, Achaemenid coin with iconographic parallels from Persepolis |
Scythopolis (Beth Shean)
Beth Shean (Hebrew בֵּית שְׁאָן): Bronze Age, Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine city in Galilee. In Greek, it was called Scythopolis (Σκυθόπολις).Bronze Age …Sea People
Sea People: name of several groups of marauders, mentioned in several Egyptian sources as enemies of king Merenptah (r.1213-1203 BCE) and king Ramesses III (r.1184-1152). Their appearance is related to the demise of the Mediterranean Bronze Age system in the…Sidon (1)
Sidon (Hebrew: צִידוֹן, Ṣîdôn; Greek: Σιδών): port in Phoenicia, modern Ṣaydā.Bronze Age Sidon-Dakerman, Middle Bronze jar Situated on a promontory halfway between…
Sidon-Dakerman, Middle Bronze jar |
Sidon, Bronze Age bottle |
Sidon, Bustan esh-Sheikh, Babylonian terrace |
Sidon, Bustan esh-Sheikh, Egyptianizing head |
Sidon, Bustan esh-Sheikh, Temple of Eshmun, foundation inscription |
Sidon, Bustan esh-Sheikh, Throne of Astarte |
Sidon, Persian port, pier |
Sidon, Royal Tombs, Chamber 1, Egyptian-style sarcophagus |