Ghassulian
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Ghassulian refers to a culture and an archaeological stage dating to the Middle and Late Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant. Its type-site, Teleilat el-Ghassul, is located in the eastern Jorda
Copper sceptre from the Nahal Mishmar hoard (at Hecht Museum, Haifa)
Ghassulian ossuary, ca. 3500 BC, Canaan (at the British Museum)
The Ghassulian star
Bronze Age
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The Bronze Age is an archaeological and anthropological term defining a phase in the development of material culture among ancient societies in Asia, the Near East and Europe. An ancient civilisation
Ghassulian
…Dates c. 4400–3800 BC Type site Teleilat el-Ghassul Major sites Bir Abu Matar Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi Preceded by Wadi Rabah culture Followed by Early Bronze Age (Canaan) Copper sceptre from the Nahal Mishmar hoard (at Hecht Museum, Haifa) Ghassulian ossuary, ca. 3500 BC, Canaan (at the British Museum) The…
One of the Alaca Höyük bronze standards from a pre-Hittite tomb dating to the 3rd millennium BC, from the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara
Hittite bronze tablet from Çorum-Boğazköy dating from 1235 BC, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara
Sphinx-lion of Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC)
Late 3rd-millennium BC silver cup from Marvdasht, Fars, with linear-Elamite inscription