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Highway 1 between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley follows the ancient route. [citation needed] To the west of Shechem, the ancient "Aphek Ascent" from the Via Maris and the coastal plain passed through Aphek, Soco and today's Kfar Saba and . Highway 55 duplicates the eastern part of this route. [citation needed]
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Oldtidens_Israel_&_Judea.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0, GFDL 2010-01-30T16:10:36Z FinnWikiNo 726x868 (109641 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=Map showing the ancient levant borders and ancient cities such as [[Urmomium]] and [[Jerash]]. The map also shows the region in the ...
After the Palestinian Authority assumed control over various cities, Israel established checkpoints on areas of the route which entered Palestinian jurisdiction. New routes of highway were paved so that Israeli traffic could bypass the Palestinian towns in order to reduce friction.
The map is a combination of a modern map and a biblical map (showing the Twelve Tribes) [51] Pashalic of Acre: 1822: Burckhardt map: Johann Ludwig Burckhardt: Map accompanying Burckhardt's Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, published in 1822, five years after his travels in the region. Syria and the Holy Land 1830: Hall map: Sidney Hall
Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula) Aram/Aramea – (Modern Syria) Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city; Archevite; Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk; Ashdod; Ashkelon; Ashur/Asshur/Assur ...
A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s during an archaeological dig.
List of cities of the ancient Near East; List of kibbutzim; List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East; List of modern names for biblical place names; List of moshavim; List of twin towns and sister cities in Israel; List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict; Lists of cities by country; Population displacements ...
The Valley of Ayalon was first mentioned in the Book of Joshua as where Joshua defeated five Amorite kings. Following his midnight march to rescue the city of Gibeon from the coalition led by the King of Jebus (Jerusalem), Joshua pursued the coalition eastward, down through the descent of Beth-horon, and then southward across the Valley of Ajalon.