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The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, ... Seleucus built his capital Seleucia in 305, but the capital was later moved to Antioch in 240 BC.
The term Levant appears in English in 1497, and originally meant 'the East' or 'Mediterranean lands east of Italy'. [23] It is borrowed from the French levant 'rising', referring to the rising of the sun in the east, [23] or the point where the sun rises. [24] The phrase is ultimately from the Latin word levare, meaning 'lift, raise'.
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The following is a refined list of Levantive archeological periods, expanded from the basic three-age system with finer subdivisions and extension into the modern historical period (note: "BP" = "Before Present").
The earliest traces of the human occupation in the Levant are documented in Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley of the Southern Levant (Historical Palestine). The site was dated to c. 1.4 million years ago , [ 2 ] but further research has fixed its chronological context to 1.5–1.2 million years ago. [ 3 ]
Its discovery proved the Levant was a center of ancient, ... The grandson of Gyges, Alyattes, built the Lydian Empire during his fifty-seven-year reign.
Dwelling foundations unearthed at Tell es-Sultan in Jericho. Levantine archaeology is the archaeological study of the Levant.It is also known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology or Palestinian archaeology [1] [2] (particularly when the area of inquiry centers on ancient Palestine [3]).
Some Natufian sites had stone built architecture; Ain Mallaha is an example of round stone structures. [29] Cave sites are also seen frequently during the Natufian culture. El Wad is a Natufian cave site with occupation in the front part of the cave also called the terrace. [ 30 ]