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Ancient cities matching “Rift Valley”

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🇬🇷Greece

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“Rift Valley”

🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city

Munhata

Yarmukian to Ghassulian (c.6400–3500 BCE) · Yarmukian → Wadi Raba → Ghassulian Chalcolithic

Stratified Neolithic–Chalcolithic mound (5 m high) in the central Jordan Valley, excavated by Jean Perrot. Yarmukian Pot...

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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Apamea

Seleucid to Byzantine Crusader · Seleucid → Roman → Byzantine

Seleucid garrison city and military elephant depot (Seleucus' 500 Indian elephants), later Roman Apamea with the grandest colonnaded cardo in the East — 1,850 m long, 37 m wide, 1,200 columns with…