...that
Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included
loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?
...that the liwan, a long narrow-fronted
hall or
vaultedportal often open to the outside, has been a feature of
Levantine homes for more than 2,000 years?
...that the village of Anasartha, located in Western
Syria and today known as Khanasser, derived its water supply until 1975 from a 12-kilometre long
Byzantine-era
qanat?
... that most of the place names in Palestine are
Arabised words with ancient
Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with
biblical sites?
<--*... that the
SemitictriliteralQ-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millenium BCE?-->