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Geography of the Eastern Mediterranean
The lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea are also known as the Levant. The region is varied, with a fertile coastal plain and mountain ranges parallel to the coast further inland. The upland zone is split by a geological fault system that forms, to the south, the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and the Wadi Araba leading to the Red Sea. To the north, al-Biqac (Bekáa Valley) divides the Lebanon Mountains from the Anti-Lebanon range, separating the Syrian Desert from the coast. The Nur (ancient Amanus) and Taurus mountains to the far north form a natural barrier between the region and the Anatolian plateau. The region roughly corresponds with the modern states of western Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan.


West Asia, Eastern Mediterranean

Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Geography of Anatolia and the Caucasus, Geography of Iran, Geography of Mesopotamia, Geography of the Arabian Peninsula, The Phoenicians (ca. 1500-300 B.C.), Ebla in the Third Millennium B.C., Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C., The Origins of Writing in Mesopotamia, The Seleucid Empire (323-64 B.C.), Abridged List of Rulers: Mesopotamia, Abridged List of Rulers: The Ancient Greek World, Abridged List of Rulers: Roman Empire,

The Eastern Mediterranean, 8000-2000 B.C., The Eastern Mediterranean, 2000-1000 B.C, The Eastern Mediterranean, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.,

East Asia, 8000-2000 B.C., West Asia, 2000-1000 B.C., West Asia, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.