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Landmark Middle East archaeological World Heritage

Baalbek

2000 BCE – still standing

Roman temple complex with the largest hewn stone blocks in the world

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Baalbek on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE)
  2. Canaan (2000 BCE–1500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kingdom of David and Solomon (1000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Assyria (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Seleucid Kingdom (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Mamluk Sultanate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Syria (France) (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. Lebanon (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Iran

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Eritrean–Ethiopian War

1998 CE – 2000 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

2026 Iran War

2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2000 BCE and 2026 CE.

2000 BCE Temple of Karnak 1800 BCE Cave of the Patriarchs 1764 BCE Elamite–Babylonian Wars 1595 BCE Kassite Conquest of Babylon 1550 BCE Expulsion of the Hyksos

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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