JERUSALEM, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Excavations of a 2,500-year-old tomb compound in the Negev desert in southern Israel revealed ancient trade caravans traveling through the area, revealing the region's possible historical significance as an international trade crossroads connecting cultures. The Israel...
Unlike a reliance on ships or carts during the Roman and Byzantine periods, camels dominated desert routes as the primary carriers in the Islamic period, becoming critical for trade and economy, they said. According to the IAA, the cave also housed an ancient olive press, where massive stones ...
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The Nabateans functioned as the important middlemen in this trade; Palestine also served as a very important component, as the trade routes crisscrossed the country. It is known that the Egyptian Queen Hatsheput (15th cen...
The extravaganza represents the latest stage of what might be called “Silk Road fever.” Even the most ardent enthusiasts admit that Japan played no direct role in the lucrative trade that flowed along the route for many centuries. But this is the way Buddhism came to Japan, they say, alon...
The Nabateans functioned as the important middlemen in this trade; Palestine also served as a very important component, as the trade routes crisscrossed the country. It is known that the Egyptian Queen Hatsheput (15th century BC) sent a royal expedition to the Land of Punt (Somalia) in ...
The Nabateans functioned as the important middlemen in this trade; Palestine also served as a very important component, as the trade routes crisscrossed the country. It is known that the Egyptian Queen Hatsheput (15th century BC) sent a royal expedition to the Land of Punt (Somalia) in ...
in this trade; Palestine also served as a very important component, as the trade routes crisscrossed the country. It is known that the Egyptian Queen Hatsheput (15th century BC) sent a royal expedition to the Land of Punt (Somalia) in order to bring back myrrh seedlings to plant in ...
(Fig.2) recovered from sediments in archaeological contexts at the core of the ancient Silk Road trade routes. The data come from Bash Tepa, a late Achaemenid through Hellenistic fortified site on the edge of the Bukhara Oasis (ca. 400 BC–AD 100), several occupation layers at Paykend ...
The empire declined with the rise of the Meditteranean Sea Peoples, who succeeded in cutting off the Hittite trade routes. In 1180, Hattusa was destroyed by invading armies. So, the new Hittite Kingdom lasted roughly 220 years. 14. Lydia Lydia emerged at the collapse of the New Hittite ...