The Holy Land
Subtitle: An Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: July 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780192850881
First sentence: Human history in Palestine extends over half a million years, and is more complicated than that of other regions because Palestine is a narrow land bridge between the vast land masses of Africa and Asia; peoples from north and south have moved back and forth across it continuously.