Bible Lands Museum - Main Gallery

Main Gallery

The main gallery consists of 21 numbered sections in chronological order:

  1. From Hunter to Urban Dweller
  2. The Coming of Civilizations
  3. Symbolic Communication
  4. Literate Voices, the Story of Writing
  5. The Pre-Patriarchal World
  6. The Sumerian Temple
  7. Old Kingdom of Egypt
  8. Genesis 14, the Age of Warfare
  9. The Age of the Patriarchs
  10. When ISrael Sojourned in Egypt
  11. The Sea Peoples
  12. The Arrival of the Iranian Horsemen
  13. Stones of Aram
  14. Israel Among the Nations
  15. Assyria, the Rod of My Anger
  16. The Splendor of Persia
  17. Hellenistic Dominions
  18. Rome and Judea
  19. Roman and Coptic Egypt
  20. Sassanian Mesopotamia - Home of the Babylonian Talmud


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