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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:54, 25 November 2019: 1,426 × 1,083 (10.03 MB): Kanguole {{Information |Description={{en|Geographical map of the ancient Near East, with toponyms relating to the period of the Akkad Empire (late third millennium BC)}} |Source={{Derived from|Near East topographic map with toponyms 3000bc.svg|display=50}} |Date=2019-11-25 |Author=*Middle ...
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.
Topographic map of parts of the Near East. The Near East (Arabic: الشرق الأدنى) is a transcontinental region around the Eastern Mediterranean broadly synonymous with the modern Middle East, encompassing the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Iranian Plateau, and coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula. [1]
Tell Barri, northeastern Syria, from the west; this is 32 meters (105 feet) high, and its base covers 37 hectares (91 acres) Tel Be'er Sheva, Beersheva, Israel. In archaeology, a tell (from Arabic: تَلّ, tall, 'mound' or 'small hill') [1] is an artificial topographical feature, a mound [a] consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the ...
The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Ancient Near East 700 BC. Classical Near East 100 AD. German. Basic map. Alter Orient 2600 BC. Alter Orient 2500 BC. Alter Orient 2400 BC. Alter Orient 2300 BC.
More information about maps in this series. Date: 2021: Source: Own work: Author: Enyavar: Other versions ... Ancient Near East 800 BC. Ancient Near East 700 BC ...