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Campaign of Shalmaneser III against Hazael
The campaign of Shalmaneser III against Hazael was an Assyrian attack on Aram-Damascus in 841 BC; Hazael was defeated but Damascus held, and Jehu of Israel paid tribute.
Campaign of Tiglath-Pileser III to Hatti (738 BC)
The campaign of Tiglath-Pileser III to Hatti in 738 BC was an Assyrian operation against the Syro-Hittite and Aramean states, defeating Hamat and annexing Unqi.
Canaan during the Hyksos period
Canaan during the Hyksos period (c. 1700–1550 BC) was a region of Canaanite city-states in close contact with, but not ruled by, the Hyksos kingdom of Egypt.
Canaanean blade
Canaanean blades, also called Canaanite blades, are large standardized flint blades made by pressure flaking, used mainly as sickle and threshing-sledge inserts across the Bronze Age Near East.
Canaanite and Aramaic seal inscriptions
Canaanite and Aramaic seal inscriptions are short legends carved on Iron Age Levant stamp seals, key evidence for personal names, society, and early alphabetic writing.
Canaanites
The Canaanites were the Northwest Semitic inhabitants of Canaan, in Palestine and western Syria, during the Bronze Age, organized in independent city-states under Egyptian rule before 1200 BC.
Capture of Damascus (732 BC)
The capture of Damascus in 732 BC, also called the Assyrian conquest of Damascus, saw Tiglath-pileser III besiege the city for 45 days, defeat King Rezin, and annex Aram-Damascus.
Capture of Jerusalem by David
The capture of Jerusalem by David is the event, told in 2 Samuel 5:6-10, in which David took the Jebusite stronghold of Zion and made it his capital around 1000 BCE.
Carchemish inscriptions
The Carchemish inscriptions, also called the Carchemish hieroglyphic Luwian corpus, are Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian texts from Karkemish, the largest corpus from any single Neo-Hittite site.
Carpentras Stele
The Carpentras Stele is an Aramaic funerary inscription of unknown provenance and the earliest known Aramaic find from Egypt, dated to the Persian period after 400 BCE.
Chemosh-yat
Chemosh-yat, also known as Kemosh-yatti, was a king of Moab in the ninth century BC, the father and predecessor of Mesha, who names him on the Mesha Stele.
Çineköy inscription
The Çineköy inscription, a Phoenician and Hieroglyphic Luwian bilingual, was carved in the 8th century BC for Warikas, king of Que in Cilicia near Adana, Turkey.
Completion of the Second Temple
The completion of the Second Temple, or dedication of the Second Temple, was the finishing of the rebuilt Jerusalem temple in 516/515 BC under Darius I.
Construction of the Second Temple
The Construction of the Second Temple, also called the Rebuilding of the Second Temple, was the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem, completed in 516 BC under Zerubbabel.
Cuthites
The Cuthites, also called Cutheans (Hebrew Kutim), are the people 2 Kings 17:24 names as settlers brought from Cuthah in Babylonia to Samaria by the Assyrian king after Israel's deportation in the late eighth century BC.
Cypriot Bichrome ware
Cypriot Bichrome ware, also called Bichrome Wheel-made Ware, is a Late Bronze Age Cypriot pottery style, painted red and black, exported in quantity to Levantine sites like Megiddo.
Dadanitic inscriptions
Dadanitic inscriptions, also known as Dedanite inscriptions, are a corpus of roughly 2,000 stone texts carved at al-ʿUlā in northwest Saudi Arabia between about 600 and 100 BCE.
Dadanitic script
The Dadanitic script, formerly called Dedanite, is an Ancient North Arabian script used at the oasis of Dadan in northwest Arabia between the 6th and 1st centuries BCE.
Deportations to Hamath
The deportations to Hamath were the population transfers after Sargon II destroyed the Syrian city of Hamath around 720 BC, settling Assyrians there and deporting Hamathites to Samaria.
Deportations under Sargon II
The deportations under Sargon II, also known as the Assyrian deportations of Israelites, were the forced transfers of Israelites after Samaria fell in 720 BCE.
Destruction of Alalakh (Level VII)
The destruction of Alalakh (Level VII) was a large-scale fire around 1637–1614 BC that ended the Level VII city at Tell Atchana, Turkey, attributed to Ḫattušili I.
Destruction of Ashkelon (604 BC)
The destruction of Ashkelon in 604 BC was Nebuchadnezzar II's capture and burning of the Philistine port city, recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle and confirmed by archaeology.
Destruction of Ekron (603 BC)
The destruction of Ekron (603 BC), also dated 604 BC, was the Babylonian burning of the Philistine city of Ekron by Nebuchadnezzar II, ending large-scale occupation at Tel Miqne.
Destruction of the First Temple
The Destruction of the First Temple, also called the Destruction of Solomon's Temple, was the burning of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylonian army in 587/586 BC.
Deuteronomic Code
The Deuteronomic Code is the law collection in Deuteronomy 12–26, governing Israel's worship, courts, and households, traditionally identified with the book found in the Temple in 622 BCE during King Josiah's reform.
Discovery of the Book of the Law
The discovery of the Book of the Law was the finding of a scroll in the Temple of Jerusalem in 622 BC, during repairs under King Josiah of Judah.
Division of the Kingdom
The Division of the Kingdom, or Schism of Jeroboam and Rehoboam, was the split of the Israelite monarchy around 931 BC into Israel under Jeroboam and Judah under Rehoboam.
Divorce of the Amurru princess
The divorce of the Amurru princess was the repudiation of Bentešina's daughter by Ammistamru II of Ugarit around 1250 BC, authorized by Tudhaliya IV and ending in her execution.
Duppi-Teshub
Duppi-Teshub (Duppi-Teššub, also spelled Tuppi-Teshub) was a king of Amurru, a Syrian kingdom between the Hittite and Egyptian spheres, grandson of Aziru and vassal of Muršili II, circa 1321–1295 BCE.
Dusigu
Dusigu was a royal woman of Ebla in northern Syria, last wife of king Irkab-damu and mother of Ishar-damu, who dominated the court as regent for nearly twenty years.