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Debunking myths: tracing Palestine’s ancient roots
After Alexander’s death his Middle East Empire was divided between two of his generals: Syria and Palestine under ... The earliest surviving classical maps of the region are Byzantine versions ...
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Israel strikes Lebanon’s ancient city of Baalbek, as tens of thousands of people flee
As Israel intensified attacks in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, residents fled to an ancient Roman temple, hoping the site’s ...
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Scientists decipher world’s oldest map on 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet to reveal location of ‘Noah’s Ark’
Ever since it was found people have tried to figure out what the map-like ... THE ancient state of Babylonia was located in the central Mesopotapia (today's Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).
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Israel strikes Lebanon’s ancient city of Baalbek, as tens of thousands of people flee
BEIRUT — As Israel intensified attacks in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek this week, residents with nowhere else to go fled to the ancient Roman ... released a map on social media ...