Ancient Near East: 330 BC - 224 AD

Source for dates: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

(See also: Ancient Near East Resource Page, Hellenistic Age, and Roman Empire.)

Seleucids Seleucid Empire. Jona Lendering Seleucid Empire. Metropolitan Museum of Art Seleucid Empire. University of Washington Seleucid Empire. Wikipedia Parthia Parthia. Jona Lendering Parthia: The Forgotten Empire. Smithsonian Museum Parthian Empire. Edward C. D. Hopkins Parthian Empire. Metropolitan Museum of Art Parthian Empire. University of Washington Parthian Horses - Parthian Archers. Beverley Burris-Davis Roman Near East Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. Worcester Art Museum Classical Jordan. Mike Gunther Colossal Temples of the Roman Near East. Metropolitan Museum of Art Decapolis. Wikipedia Decapolis of Jordan. Rami G. Khouri

Roman Near East, cont'd First Jewish-Roman War. Wikipedia Hasmonean Dynasty. Wikipedia Herod the Great. Unidentified author Jerash - A Brief History. Aramco Jerusalem: In Search of the Maccabees. Jacqueline Schaalje King Herod the Great. Jona Lendering Maccabees. Mitchell Bard An Overview of New Testament Geography. Felix Just Palmyra. Wikipedia Petra - A Brief History. Aramco Petra and the Nabataeans. Mike Gunther Petra: Lost City Of Stone. American Museum of Natural History Petra - Myth and Reality. Philip C. Hammond Roman Provinces. Wikipedia Roman Provinces Under Trajan (map). Wikipedia Second Temple Period. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Some remarks on the Hasmonean period. Michael Zank Syria (Roman Province). Wikipedia Trade between Arabia and Rome and Asia. Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Seleucus I Iran, 300-280 bc	Bilingual cippus Malta, 2c bc	Surena Iran, 2c bc/ad	Rhyton Iran, 1c bc	Statuary head Susa, 1c ad	Standing man Iran, 1/2c ad	Amphora Iran/Iraq, 2/3c ad
Necklace Iran, 2c ad	Incense burner Yemen, 3c bc	Funerary stela Yemen, 1c bc/ad	Bull Yemen, 1-2c ad	Baal Syria, 1c bc	Divine triad Palmyra, 1c ad	Yarhai Palmyra, 2c ad
Ummayat Syria, 2c ad	Haliphat Syria, 231 ad	Maliku Syria, 3c ad

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