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Hazael (/ ˈ h eɪ z i əl /; Biblical Hebrew: חֲזָאֵל or חֲזָהאֵל, romanized: Ḥăzāʾēl [1]) was a king of Aram-Damascus mentioned in the Bible. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Under his reign, Aram-Damascus became an empire that ruled over large parts of contemporary Syria and Israel-Samaria . [ 4 ]
The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. The ancient Land of Israel was a geographical bridge between the political and cultural centers of Mesopotamia and Egypt .
In the second half of the 9th century BCE (the most widely accepted date for the stele), the kingdom of Aram-Damascus, under its ruler Hazael, was a major power in the Levant. Dan, just 70 miles from Hazael's capital of Damascus, would almost certainly have come under its sway.
The horse frontlet in North Room 3 at the Archaeological Museum of Samos. It was found in 1984 at the Heraion of Samos.It is 27.3 centimetres (10.7 in) long. [2]On its left side, starting from the top, it has a single line of inscription, which can be read horizontally (from the right to the left) when the artefact is rotated by approximately 120 degrees clockwise.
The Hebrew Bible records that Hazael devastated cities in the Shephelah during the ninth century BCE, including the Philistine city of Gath. [ 3 ] [ non-primary source needed ] The similar siege and destruction in 9th century BCE of Tell es-Safi , a nearby site usually identified as Gath, has been cited by archaeologists as possible evidence of ...
Tel Hazor (Hebrew: תל חצור), also Chatsôr (Hebrew: חָצוֹר), translated in LXX as Hasōr (Ancient Greek: Άσώρ), [1] [2] named in Arabic Tell Waqqas / Tell Qedah el-Gul [3] (Arabic: تل القدح, romanized: Tell el-Qedah), is an archaeological tell at the site of ancient Hazor, located in Israel, Upper Galilee, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the northern Korazim Plateau.
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of Israel Early history Prehistoric Levant Kebaran Mushabian Natufian Harifian Yarmukian Lodian Nizzanim Ghassulian Canaan Retjenu Habiru Shasu Late Bronze Age collapse Ancient Israel and Judah Iron Age I Israelites ...