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 | | According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, there were five places where "new" evidence on Canaanite culture had been obtained, including Tell-el-Hasy, eventually identified with the Lachish of the Old Testament, where excavations were made in 1890-1892 by Flinders Petrie and Bliss; and Gezer, identified with the Gezer of I Kings x. |
 | | The letters are written in the official and diplomatic language Babylonian, though "Canaanitish" words and idioms are not wanting. |
 | | 1290 BC) is said to have conquered the Shasu, Arabian nomads living just south and east of the Dead Sea, from the fortress of Taru (Shtir?) to "the Ka-n-'-na," and Rameses III (ca. |
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