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A god worshipped first by the Phoenicians as “Baʿal of the heavens” from at least 950 BCE, and then throughout Syria where the Aramaic form Baʿal-šamīn was interpreted as a divine epithet “Lord of the heavens”. He was believed to control the weather and was worshipped by the nomads and farmers alike. In South Arabia in the monotheistic period (4th century CE onwards), Bʿls¹myn (‘the Lord of heaven’) was used as an epithet of the One God
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See Sacred stones
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The Hebrew Bible contains several references to 1st-millennium-BCE Arabian place names and peoples from a wide area along the South Arabian incense trade routes, particularly concentrated in the northern Hejaz, the Syro-Arabian Desert, and the Negev.
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Bithnah is a small oasis in the Emirate of Fujairah (UAE) along the wadi Ham, comprising several Iron Age sites. The excavated sites include a collective grave (Bithnah-14, 2nd millennium BCE and LPI C period), a fortress (Bithnah-24) and a place of worship (Bithnah-44), occupied during the Iron Age II. The place of worship yielded a series of ritual practices associated with the snake.
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Ancient city and seaport of the kingdom of Ḥaḍramawt (1st cent. BCE-6th cent. CE), located on the southern coast of modern Yemen. The city was situated at the crossroads of the sea routes between India, the Horn of Africa, Aksum and the Red Sea. Aromatic resins stored in warehouses were traded from there.
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See Script
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See Weaponry