Area or Region: PreHistoric Near East / Mesopotamia /
Levant (Mashriq) / Anatolia / Lisan Lake
Mesopotamia: Jazirah - Jazireh - Yazirah / Sumer - Shinar
Akkad - Accad - Agade / Old Babylonia Empire / Assyria - Subartu
Neo-Babylonian Empire or Chaldea / Hurrian - Mitanni
Levant: Canaan or Palestine / Esdraelon / Dead Sea / Wadi Arabah
Hebrews / Samaria / Israelites / Philistines - Philistia / Phoenicia
Arameans / Bit-Adini / Nabateans / Ammonites / Edomites / Moabites
Zagros Mountains and Iran: Guti / Lullubi / Kassites
Parthia / Persia / Elam - Susiana / Media - Medes
Africa: Egyptian History / Egyptian Art and Civilization /
Hyksos / Nubia
Anatolia (Turkey) [Asia Minor]: Hittites / Lycia / Phrygia / Lydia
Arabian Peninsula: Arabia / Amorites
TransCaucasus: Urartu -- Ararat /Armenia / Kurdistan
CisCaucasus: Cimmerians / Scythians
Mediterranean Island: Cyprus
Persian Gulf Island: Bahrain Archipelago
Prehistoric and Cultural Type-Sites
PALEOLITHIC SITES
TABUN CAVE
(ISRAEL) / JEBEL QAFZEH
CAVE (ISRAEL) /
MUGHARET
SKHUL CAVE (ISRAEL) / AMUD CAVE
(ISRAEL) /
SHANIDAR
CAVE (IRAQ) / MUGHARET WAD
CAVE (ISRAEL) /
YABROUD
(YABRUD) CAVE [SYRIA]
MESOLITHIC OR EPIPALEOLITHIC SITES
On the Difference Between These Two Terms Read
THE MESOLITHIC OF THE LEVANT
WADI NATUF (ISRAEL) / AIN MALLAHA
(ISRAEL) /
ZAWI
CHEMI SHANIDAR (IRAQ) / KARIM SHAHIR
(IRAQ) /
KEBARA CAVE
(ISRAEL) / JERICHO
(ISRAEL) /
TELL ABU HUREYRA
(SYRIA) / ZARZI CAVE (IRAQ)
NEOLITHIC AND CHALCOLITHIC TYPE-SITES
1. PPNB TAHUNIAN PERIOD (PALESTINE) [7TH MILLENNIUM BC]
2. JARMO
(NORTHEASTERN IRAQ) [7TH MILLENNIUM BC]
3. CATAL HOYUK
(ANATOLIA) [6700 - 5650 BC]
4. DABAGHIYAH CULTURE (NORTHERN IRAQ PLAIN)
5. HASSUNAN CULTURE (NORTHERN IRAQ) [5750 - 5050 BC]
6. YARMUKIAN CULTURE (ISRAEL/JORDAN) [5600 - 5000 BC]
7. HALAF CULTURE (NORTHERN IRAQ) [5500 - 4700 BC]
8. SAMARRAN CULTURE (NORTHERN IRAQ) [5500 - 4800 BC]
9. BADARIAN CULTURE (EGYPT) [5000 - 4000 BC]
10. ERIDU PERIOD
(SUMER) [FIRST PHASE PROTO UBAID]
11. HAJJI
MUHAMMED PERIOD (SECOND PHASE PROTO UBAID)
12. PRE-LITERATE UBAID CULTURE (MESOPOTAMIA)
13. TELEILAT GHASSUL CULTURE (URBANISM) [JORDAN]
14. AMRATIAN CULTURE (NAQADA I) [EGYPT] (4000 - 3500 BC)
15. TEPE GAWRA PERIOD
(NORTH MESOPOTAMIA) [CONTEMPORARY URUK]
16. URUK
(ARABIC WARKA) [BIBLICAL ERECH] (PROTO URBAN PERIOD)
17. GERZEAN CULTURE (NAQADAH II) [EGYPT] (3500 - 3100 BC)
18. JEMDET NASR
PERIOD (SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA) [3100 - 2900 BC]
Major Historic Sites
1. JERUSALEM
(JEBUSITE) [CANAANITE] (ISRAEL)
2. NINEVEH (ASSYRIA)
[KUYUNJIK PALACE]
3. BABYLON
(BABIL) [TOPONYM] (IRAQ)
4. PERSEPOLIS
(TOPONYM PERSIA) [IRAN]
5. ALEPPO (TRADE
CROSSROADS) [SYRIA]
6. LACHISH
(SENNACHERIB) [ISRAEL]
7. THEBES (MODERN
LUXOR) [AMON-RE] (EGYPT)
8. PETRA (NABATEAN
CAPITAL) [JORDAN]
9. EBLA (TELL
MARDIKH) [SYRIA]
10. MARI (TELL
HARIRI) [MIDDLE EUPHRARTES] (SYRIA)
11. PALMYRA
(TADMOR) [SYRIA]
12.ASHUR (QALAT SHARQAT) [TOPONYM ASSYRIA] (IRAQ)
13. SUSA (BIBLICAL SHUSHAN) [ELAMITE CAPITAL] (SW IRAN)
14. ALEXANDRIA (EGYPT) [PTOLEMIES] (BIBLIOTECA)
15. HATTUSAS (MODERN BOGAZKOY) [ANATOLIA] (TURKEY)
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