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The City of Ugarit was a well-known city and kingdom which flourished during the second millennium BCE, located on the coast of the Mediterranean in today’s northern Syria. The location of the city was unknown until 1928, when a grave discovered by accident in the village of Ras Shamra turned out to be part of the Ugarit necropolis.

Amazing and Beautiful photos from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, that you can t find in other place! Israel Tourism never was so popular before. Thousands of years of history comer together in Jaffa, one of world’s oldest cities and the birthplace of Tel Aviv. This Tel Aviv Pictures Show A center of tourism, food and fun, with an exotic Levantine ambiance. Driving to Jaffa is like going through a time tunnel – skyscrapers soar on the left, while ahead lays a city with thousands of years behind it.

Tel Aviv is home to three of Israel’s largest museums, which draw a total of 1.1 million visitors a year. Among them are: Tel Aviv Museum of Art displays modern and post-modern art. Also on display are works from the 16th-19th centuries, including the Impressionist period, as well as graphic design and photography. Another fascinating museum is The Eretz Israel Museum. It deals with the history and culture of the land of Israel, including archeology, anthropology, folklore, ethnography, Judaic, history and more.

Caesarea area has had a long and checkered history. It was initially settled during the Hellenistic period (third century B.C.E.), when the Phoenicians built a small port city that they named Straton’s Tower. In 90 B.C.E., Alexander Jannaeus captured Straton’s Tower as part of his policy of developing the shipbuilding industry and enlarging the Hasmonean kingdom. Straton’s Tower remained a Jewish city for two generations, until the Roman conquest of 63 B.C.E. when the Romans declared Straton’s Tower an autonomous city.