Synopsis: The fracturing and diminishment of Egyptian power in the early Iron Age is captured in βThe Report of Wenamun.β I found (King Zakar-baal of Byblos) seated in his upper chamber with his back against a window, and the waves of the great sea of […]
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Episode C9 β Horse to Horse, Army to Army
Synopsis: In the mid-11th century BC, the Hittite kingdoms of northern Syria are joined by othersβ in the Philistine pentapolis, the Amuq plain and the region of Classical Cilicia β with ties to the former Mycenaean Greeks. The Phoenician cities of the Levantine coast begin […]