The earliest human remains in Palestine were found in Ubeidiya, some 3 km south of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias), in the Jordan Rift Valley. The remains are dated to the Pleistocene, c. 1.5 million years ago. These are traces of the

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By the early Bronze Age (3000–2200 BCE), independent Canaanitecity-states situated in plains and coastal regions and surrounded by mud-brick

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The Iron Agein Palestine stretches from about the 12th century to the 5th century BCE. For long, historians relied on the stories in the Hebrew Bible to create a narrative of the period.

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Hellenistic period
In the late 330s BCE, Alexander the Greatconquered Palestine on his way to Egypt. The conquest was a relatively uncomplicated as Persian

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In the late 6th century, a new monotheistic religion called Islam was founded by its prophet Muhammad, whose followers became known as

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Christian Europe, though still backwards, had by the end of the 11th century become a significant power. While Palestine was a far away land, pilgrimage had nurtured a special bond between the

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The Ayyubids allowed Jewish and Orthodox Christian settlement in the region, and the Dome of the Rock was converted back into an Islamic center of worship . The

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