During the 2nd millennium BC, Ancient Egyptian texts use the term Canaan to refer to an Egyptian-ruled colony, whose boundaries generally corroborate the definition of Canaan found in the Hebrew Bible, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north in the vicinity of Hamath in Syria, to the east by the Jordan Valley, and to the south by a line extended from the Dead Sea to around Gaza.

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

* University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ( Canaan & Ancient Israel Exhibit )

Some other terms that have been used to refer to all or part of this land include Canaan, Greater Israel, Greater Syria, the Holy Land, Iudaea Province, Judea, Israel, " Israel HaShlema ", Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Land of Israel ( Eretz Yisrael or Ha ' aretz ), Zion, Retenu ( Ancient Egyptian ), Southern Syria, and Syria Palestina.

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Redford was the winner of the 1993 " Best Scholarly Book in Archaeology " awarded by the Biblical Archaeological Society for his work Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.

* Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.

* Canaan and Ancient Israel by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times.

Ancient DNA studies have shown that in prehuman times the distribution of this species included the east coast of the South Island.

Ancient members of the show's cast, like the Devil and Punch's mistress " Pretty Polly ," ceased to be included when they came to be seen as inappropriate for young audiences.

Ancient pre-samurai swords included tsurugi ( straight double edged blade ) and Chokutō ( straight single edged blade ).

For a brief period, after the conquests of Alexander the Great, it became the most powerful state in the world, controlling a territory that included the former Persian empire, stretching as far as the Indus River ; at that time it inaugurated the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek civilization.

Murasaki's poems were published in 1206 by Fujiwara Teika, in what Mulhern believes to be the collection that is closest to the original form ; at around the same time Teika included a selection of Murasaki's works in an imperial anthology, New Collections of Ancient and Modern Times.

Ancient Roman mythological belief also included a god named Faunus and a goddess named Fauna who were goat people.

Ancient Egyptian literature was not included in early studies of the history of literature because the writings of Ancient Egypt were not translated into European languages until the 19th century when the Rosetta stone was deciphered.

Ancient Phoenicia saw ' a special sacrifice at the season of the harvest, to reawaken the spirit of the vine '; while the winter fertility rite to restore ' the spirit of the withering vine ' included as sacrifice ' cooking a kid in the milk of its mother, a Canaanite custom which Mosaic law condemned and formally forbade '.

As a young man he composed the ballads Ivry and The Armada, which he later included as part of Lays of Ancient Rome, a series of very popular ballads about heroic episodes in Roman history which he composed in India and published in 1842.

Ancient commentators included Tyrtaeus with Archilochus and Callinus as the possible inventor of the elegy.

In 1760, noted Shakespearean editor Edward Capell included the play in his Prolusions ; or, Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry, Compil'd with great Care from their several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publicke as Specimens of the Integrity that should be Found in the Editions of worthy Authors, and concluded that it had been written by Shakespeare.

Some of the biomes to be included are Congo Basin Tropical Forest, Central American Swamp, African Savannah, Sumatra Tropical Forest, Nepal Riverine Forest, Coral Reef, British Ancient Woodland and British Wetlands.

The Two Ladies, Wadjet and Nekhbet, remained patron deities of the rulers of Ancient Egypt throughout every dynasty, including that of Akhenaten ( who often is described as having abandoned all but one solar deity ), and they all bore their images on their crowns and included special names associated with these goddesses among their titles.

Ancient Welsh custom, discontinued in the 19th century, included bleeding of livestock and " holming " ( beating or slashing with holly branches ) of late risers and female servants.

* The progressive rock band Ainur has written a song titled " War of Wrath " included in their first album From Ancient Times ( 2006 ).

Ancient Arran covered all eastern Transcaucasia, which included most of the territory of modern day Azerbaijan Republic and part of the territory of Dagestan.

The second of the articles of union stated that there were but three degrees in " pure Ancient Masonry ", but included the Royal Arch in the third degree.

It included a description of " most of the cities of the world " ( Townatlas ), of the waterworld ( Atlas Maritimus in 33 maps ), and of the Ancient World ( 60 maps ).

This is supported by Dr. Nihar Ray in " The History Of Bengali People, Ancient Period ", published in " Desh ", The Famous Bengali Literary Magazine in 1951, and included in the special issue of " Articles of One Century ".

The pentathlon was first documented in Ancient Greece, and included the discus throw | discus and javelin throw.

His later work included illustrations for new editions of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, The Works of Thomas Hood, and The Divine Comedy.

Despite being spoken of on only a few occasions in Lovecraft's work, Yig is one of the Ancient Ones included in the Arkham Horror board game, appearing alongside Great Old Ones such as Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.

Ancient Samnium was included in three of Augustus ' regions.

The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

The name of the region also survives in the tribal designation of the ancient population of Latins, Latini in the Latin language spoken by them and passed on to the city-state of Ancient Rome.

Ancient tribes in the region.

The history of the Ancient Near East begins in the Lower Paleolithic period, and ends with either the arrival of the Achaemenid Empire in the late 6th century BC, or with the Arab Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, from which point the region came to be known as Iraq.

The art of Mesopotamia rivalled that of Ancient Egypt as the most grand, sophisticated and elaborate in western Eurasia from the 4th millennium BC until the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered the region in the 6th century BC.

Ancient trees include two giant olive trees in Arraba and five trees in Deir Hanna, both in the Galilee region, which have been determined to be over 3, 000 years old, although the credibility of the study that produced these dates has been questioned.

Moesia ( Dobrogea ), a region south of the Danube, was a core area where the Getae lived and interacted with the Ancient Greeks.

Ionia ( Ancient Greek Ἰωνία or Ἰωνίη ) is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna.

He proposed the introduction of an endurance road race under the name " Marathon " which would start from the region where in 490 BC the battle of the Greeks against the Persians occurred and would end at the Pnyx of Ancient Athens, where, presumably, the messenger arrived bringing the good news of victory to the Athenians.

The earliest known inhabitants of the southeastern and central Ohio region were the Hopewell, Adena, and Fort Ancient Native Americans, of whom little evidence survived, beyond the burial and ceremonial mounds built throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.

The settlement was known in the Celtic times and to Ancient Greek historians as Kelea ; findings suggest that Celts coined Noric money in the region.

Ancient Greek architecture is best known from its temples, many of which are found throughout the region, mostly as ruins but many substantially intact.

The dwellings of that region were inhabited by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples ( Anasazi ), and a long drought in the area in the late 13th century may have caused them to move to the Rio Grande where the water supply was more dependable.

Since the 2nd millennium BC, the region now inhabited by the native Pashtun people have been influenced by Ancient Iranian peoples, the Medes, Achaemenids, Greeks, Mauryas, Kushans, Hephthalites, Sassanids, Arab Muslims, Turks, and others.

Caria (; from Luwian: Karuwa, " steep country "; Ancient Greek: Καρία, Karia ) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia ( Mycale ) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia.

Messene ( Greek: Μεσσήνη Messini ), officially Ancient Messene, is a local community ( topiki koinotita ) of the municipal unit ( dimotiki enotita ) Ithomi, of the municipality ( dimos ) of Messini within the regional unit ( perifereiaki enotita ) of Messenia in the region ( perifereia ) of Peloponnese, one of 13 regions into which Greece has been divided.

This lifestyle quickly developed into what Jaris Yurins has called the circum-Arabian nomadic pastoral techno-complex and is possibly associated with the appearance of Semitic languages in the region of the Ancient Near East.

Ancient Oaks is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.

Cumae (; Ancient Greek: Κύμη Kymē or Κύμαι Kymai or Κύμα Kyma ) is an ancient Greek settlement lying to the northwest of Naples in the Italian region of Campania.

Locris ( Greek, Modern: Lokrida, Ancient: Lokris ) was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of three distinct districts.