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:
Beth Shean, Dedication to Mekal |
Beth Shean, Hill |
Beth Shean, House of the Egyptian governor |
Beth Shean, House of the Egyptian governor, Doorpost tablet with the cartouches of Sety I |
Bethlehem
Bethlehem: town in Judaea, birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.Bethlehem Bethlehem on the Madaba Map Already mentioned in the Amarna Letters (fourteenth century…
Biblical genealogy |
Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis
Yesterday, I visited the Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire / Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis in Brussels, one of my favorite museums in Belgium. I have been there quite often, but this was the first time that all the…Bsharre
Bsharre: town in northern Lebanon, site of an archaic tomb. Bsharre, tomb, outside The modern town of Bsharre (Bcharré, Bsharri...) is at…
Bsharre, Phoenician tomb |
Bsharre, Phoenician tomb, inside |
Bustan esh-Sheikh
Bustan esh-Sheikh: sanctuary, dedicated to Eshmun, near Sidon. The Greeks called it "the grove of Asclepius". Babylonian and Persian terraces Situated just…Byblos
Byblos (Hebrew גבל; Greek Βύβλος): one of the oldest cities in the world, inhabited from the Neolithic until the Middle Ages, modern Jubayl.Origins …