Category:Ancient Near East
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The main article for this category is Ancient Near East.
The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria), Persia (modern Iran), Anatolia (modern Turkey), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan), and Ancient Egypt, from the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC until the region's conquest by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, or covering both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the region.
See also:
- Category:Ancient Egypt
- Category:Egyptology
- Category:Ancient Israel and Judah
- Category:Semitic peoples
- Category:Semitology
Subcategories
This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
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