The conference which gave rise to these proceedings was called to clarify the historical processes that led to the development of abundant and complex relations between the two regions during a
time span bounded by the end of the Chalcolithic Period and the dawn of the Iron Age. Archaeologists, philologists, historians, and other specialists present 14 papers on such topics as
Wenamun's misfortune at Dor in its ancient Near Eastern legal context, the multi-period harbor town Tell Tweini on the Syrian coast, Hittite-Egyptian synchronisms and their consequences for
ancient Near Eastern chronology, two languages and two dialogues in the Amarna letters, and Levantine combed ware from Heit el-Churab in Giza. Distributed in North America by The David Brown
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