King Tiglath-Pileser III

King Tiglath-Pileser III (r. 745–727), depicted in a wall relief from his Central Palace at Nimrud in northern Iraq, forced Israel and other Levantine states to pay tribute in exchange for peace.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the first and grandest of the Constantinian commemorative churches. The original church was larger than the building seen here, which mostly dates to the Crusader period.

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Old Kingdom pharaoh

At the Canaanite city of Hazor, archaeologists found two dozen fragments of ancient Egyptian statues, including this 5-inch-tall head of an unnamed Old Kingdom pharaoh.

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