Canaan

An map of Canaan made in 1692 AD.

Canaan was an ancient region in the Levant. In the Bible, it was the land promised to Abraham and his children by God.

History

The Canaanites lived in the area from about 2,000 BC until the time of the Bible. The area covers part of the area that is now Israel, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.

Canaan Media

Hakob Me'Sul - wall painting Tuluyot E'Sul
Ghassulian dolmen, Kueijiyeh hill near Madaba, Jordan
Tell es-Sakan in Gaza was inhabited by the Canaanites from approximately 2600 BC to 2300 BC, reinhabiting an earlier Egyptian settlement.
Map of the Near East by Robert de Vaugondy (1762), indicating "Canaan" as limited to the Holy Land, to the exclusion of Lebanon and Syria
Canaanite Anra scarab showing Egyptian nswt-bjt and ankh symbols bordering a cartouche with an undeciphered sequence of hieroglyphs, c. 1648–1540 BC
Map of the Ancient Near East around 1400 BC
Basalt lions from the Orthostat Temple of Hazor (c. 1500–1300 BC) Hazor was violently destroyed during the Bronze Age collapse.
Canaanite sarcophagi discovered in Deir al-Balah and now displayed in the Israel Museum
Merneptah Stele (JE 31408) from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Reverse of clay cuneiform tablet, EA 9, letter from Burna-Buriaš II to Nibḫurrereya (Tutankhamun?) from Room 55 of the British Museum

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