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῾Abbasid Caliphate (Map)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
῾Abbasid Caliphate (A-Z entry)
As the result of a revolution that culminated In 750 ce in the defeat of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan ibn Muhammad , on ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Adab (A-Z entry)
mounds located in a desert area of southern Iraq about 40 km (25 mi.) due east of the modern town of Diwaniya and about ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Aegean Islands (A-Z entry)
The purpose of this essay is to situate the Aegean Islands in their own social, economic and cultural milieu as well as in a ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ahaz (A-Z entry)
King of Judah , 735 – 715 bce . The Assyrians were dominant, and Syria and Ephraim resolved to arrest their eastward expansion and ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
῾Ajlun (A-Z entry)
site located above Wadi Kafranja, one of three valleys between the two lakes which climb from the Jordan Valley up to the Transjordanian plateau ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkade (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkade (A-Z entry)
capital city, location unknown, of the Akkadian Empire ( c. 2290 – 2200 bce ), created and maintained by Sargon and his dynastic successors. ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (A-Z entry)
The language of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians of Mesopotamia, Akkadian, subsumes both Assyrian and Babylonian dialects within it. The earliest attested Semitic language, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadians (Map)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadians (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadians (A-Z entry)
Although the origin of the term is unknown, Akkadians refers to a Semitic-speaking people living in northern Babylonia in about 2400 – 2100 bce ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Alalakh (A-Z entry)
site located in the Turkish province of Hatay, near the mouth of the Orontes River, in the ῾Amuq plain (36°19′ N, 36°29′ E). The ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Alalakh Texts (A-Z entry)
British-led archaeological teams, directed by C. Leonard Woolley from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1946 to 1949 , excavated more than 515 texts ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Aleppo (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Aleppo (A-Z entry)
( Ar., Ḥalab ), the second largest city in Syria, located in the northern part of the country (40°12′ N, 38°68′ 5″ E). It ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Alexander III (“The Great”) (A-Z entry)
Macedonian, born in 356 BCE . After the assassination of his father, Philip II , at Aegae in 336 , Alexander ascended to the ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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