Byblos
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Byblos, also known as Jbail, Jebeil, Jbeil or Jubayl, is an ancient city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. The area is believed to have been first settled between 8800 and 7000 BC and cont
Byblos Old Town
Terracotta jug from Byblos (now in the Louvre), Late Bronze Age (1600–1200 BC)
Dark faced burnished ware pottery from Shir, in Syria
Byblos
Canaan
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Canaan was an ancient Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Pe
Byblos
…first settled between 8800 and 7000 BC and continuously inhabited since 5000 BC. During its history, Byblos was part of numerous cultures including Canaanite, Egyptian, Phoenician, Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Umayyad, Abbasid, Genoese, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman. Urbanisation is thought to have…
The Ghassulian star
Ghassulian dolmen, Kueijiyeh hill near Madaba, Jordan
Tell es-Sakan in Gaza was inhabited by the Canaanites from approximately 2600 BC to 2300 BC, reinhabiting an earlier Egyptian settlement.
Tel Megiddo altar ruins