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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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At that time, Megiddo was an important administrative, cultural and economic center with monumental buildings, fortifications, and temples.
Far from being an arid landscape suitable only for herders, the strata of the period corresponding to Abraham's migration [?] reveal a city-state of almost 2,000 inhabitants.
At that time, Canaan was an economically developed region with a very dense network of city-states.
Doubts are raised about the chronology that has been proposed by traditional interpretations of the Bible. But what of the migration [?] itself? Canaan is a buffer zone, situated in between Egypt and Mesopotamia.
And these empires have left a number of vestiges.
Megiddo is one of the sites where such material abounds.
This book of stone will allow us to read the ancient pages of the history of Egypt and Mesopotamia,
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