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  2. List of archaeological sites by country - Wikipedia

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    Rhodes (Ancient and Walled City of Rhodes), South Aegean Samikon , West Greece Samothrace Temple complex (Sanctuary of the Great Gods), East Macedonia and Thrace

  3. Moab - Wikipedia

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    The Land of Moab: Travels and Discoveries on the East Side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan (Second ed.). London: John Murray. MacDonald, Burton (2020). A History of Ancient Moab from the Ninth to First Centuries BCE. SBL Press. ISBN 978-1-62837-268-7. Routledge, Bruce (2004). Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology. University of ...

  4. Petra - Wikipedia

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    In ancient times, Petra might have been approached from the south on a track leading across the plain of Petra, around Jabal Haroun ("Aaron's Mountain"), the location of the Tomb of Aaron, said to be the burial place of Aaron, brother of Moses. Another approach was possibly from the high plateau to the north.

  5. Ancient Near East - Wikipedia

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    The Ancient Near East: A History. 2nd ed. Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1997. ISBN 0-15-503819-2. Pittman, Holly (1984). Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870993657. Sasson, Jack. The Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1995.

  6. Pella, Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Children playing football in the ancient ruins of Pella in September 2004. In the late Roman and Byzantine periods, the town extended over the ancient tell (archaeological mound), across the broad central valley of the town today known as the Wadi al-Jirm (see photograph), and over the slopes and summit of the southern hill known as Tell al-Husn.

  7. King's Highway (ancient) - Wikipedia

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    The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. The King's Highway was a trade route of vital importance in the ancient Near East, connecting Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrates ...

  8. Aqaba - Wikipedia

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    The Port of Aqaba also serves other countries in the region. [7] Aqaba's strategic location at the northeastern tip of the Red Sea between the continents of Asia and Africa has made its port important throughout thousands of years. [7] The ancient city was called Elath, adopted in Latin as Aela and in Arabic as Ayla.

  9. List of cities of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia

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    The largest cities of the Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age , with some 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest city of the time by far. Ebla is estimated to have had a population of 40,000 inhabitants in the Intermediate Bronze age . [ 1 ]