Thursday, June 26, 2014

Israel's Timeline

The land that we now call Israel has had a very long timeline. During my visit, I was able to see evidence of many different era's represented in archeology.

The Era's are:
Stone Age: Until 4800 B.C.E.
Chalcolithic: -4800
Canaanite (Bronze Age): -3600
Judges (Iron Age 1): -1200
Israelite (Iron Age 2-3): -1004
Short Babylonian Rule: -586
Persian: -538
Hellenistic: -332
Hasmonean: -167
Roman: -63
Byzantine: 324
Muslim: 638
Crusader: 1099
Mameluke: 1291
Ottoman: 1516
British: 1917
Israel: 1948

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