The Interconnected World of the Late Bronze Age
Tides of History
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A Brief History of the Levantine Ports
Caan was at the heart of this regional world, sharing languages and material culture. It's clear that traffic up and down the coast of the levot from ugarit to cities like biblos and ashcalon to the south. Egyptian goods like gold, unworked glass and exotic items passed through these levantine ports on their way to the rest of the bronze age world. For these canaanite merchants residing in cities like ashcalon, biblus and ugerit, access to egyptian goods would have been hugely important.
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