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:
Amman, Egyptianizing relief |
Amman, Iron Age II figurine |
Amman, Jordan Museum
A splendid, modern museum, documenting Jordan's past from prehistory until Late Antiquity. A part of the collection originates from the old Archaeological Museum on the citadel of Amman. One of the most beautiful museums in the Middle East. …Ammon (kingdom)
Ammon: Bronze and Iron Age kingdom, east of the river Jordan. The Jabbok According to the Biblical book of Judges,note[Judges 11.13] the…
The Antakya Stela |
The road to Damascus through the Antilebanon |
Antioch, Museum
A very large museum with many mosaics and some sculpture, including a splendid sarcophagus. When I visited the place for the last time, parts of the museum were closed because it was moving to another location in a different part…Apocalypticism
Apocalypticism: literary genre in which a person receives secret information about the nature of the universe.The word “apocalypticism” is derived from Greek ἀποκάλυψις, apocalypsis, meaning “un-covering”. It is a literary genre in which a person receives secret information about the nature…Aramaeans
Aramaeans: name of the Iron Age people living in what is now Syria. Their language, Aramaic, became the lingua franca of the ancient Near East. …
A cedar in the Qadisha valley |
Asian POW |
The desert north of Awjila |