Timeline
Every guide, in its time.
Read across eras and regions, then open a guide to see the sources behind its dates. A shared date is a question to investigate, not evidence of contact.
4 of 57 guides in Anatolia & the Levant
Before 5000 BCE 3
- 10500 BCE onward
Whose walls are the walls of Jericho?
Jericho: eleven thousand years in one mound.
Jordan Valley, Palestine · Anatolia & the Levant · Early cities
Tell es-Sultan preserves twenty-nine phases of occupation beside a spring. Learn why a site's oldest date must not be borrowed for its youngest walls.
- 9600–8200 BCE
Who built monuments before cities?
Göbekli Tepe: monuments raised before farming towns.
Şanlıurfa, southeastern Türkiye · Anatolia & the Levant · Early cities
Visit a hilltop in southeastern Türkiye where carved stone enclosures stand at the edge of the Neolithic, and learn how a site's dates are framed.
- 7400–6200 BCE
What did a Neolithic neighbourhood look like?
Çatalhöyük: a town without streets.
Konya plain, central Anatolia, Türkiye · Anatolia & the Levant · Early cities
Visit two mounds on the Konya plain where densely packed houses were entered from the roof, and learn to keep each claim with its mound and level.
Not tied to one period 1
- Roman sanctuary over earlier, undated remains
Does older occupation make a monument older?
Baalbek: earlier remains and a Roman podium.
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon · Anatolia & the Levant · Kingdoms & monuments
Baalbek's enormous podium stones attract bold claims. Learn how the research record separates attested earlier remains from the date of the monumental construction itself.
Keep the habit
Dates are ranges. Read them that way.
Each guide names its period, its place, and the records that support them.
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