The earliest human remains in the region were found in Ubeidiya, 3 km south of the Sea of Galilee, in the
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In the Early Bronze Age (c. 3700–2500 BCE) period, the earliest formation of urban societies and cultures emerged in the region. The period is defined through archaeology, as it is absent from any historical re… See more

Following Cyrus the Great's conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, Palestine became part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. At least five Persian provinces existed in the region: Yehud Medinata, Samaria, Gaza, Ashdod, and Ascalo… See more

Hellenistic Palestine is the term for Palestine during the Hellenistic period, when Achaemenid Syria was conquered by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE and subsumed into his growing Macedonian empire. … See more

In 63 BCE, a war of succession in the Hasmonean court provided the Roman general Pompey with the opportunity to make the Jewish kingdom a client of Rome, starting a centuries-long period of Roman rule. After … See more

The tide turned in Christianity's favor in the 4th century. The century began with the most intense persecution of Christians the empire had seen, but ended with Christianity becoming the Roman state church. … See more

Between 636 and 640, the Muslim armies of the second Islamic caliph Umar conquered Palestine. Under Islamic rule, Christians, Jews and Samaritans were protected as fellow Abrahamic monotheists or "… See more