"Israel's archeological richness Israel boasts three Roman amphitheaters, in Caesarea, Bet She’an and Beit Guvrin. While some scholars maintain that the amphitheater in Beit Guvrin was also used for military purposes, Tepper and Adams believe that its location within the city indicates that it was more than likely mainly used for the population of the city."
"Levant" is simply a term used to deny Israel's history.
Ditto Larry.
Actually, the term has a much broader application than just Israel.
”The Levant (/ləˈvænt/) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to a stretch of land bordering the Mediterranean in southwestern Asia, i.e. the historical region of Syria ("greater Syria"), which includes present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and most of Turkey southwest of the middle Euphrates. Its overwhelming characteristic is that it represents the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia. In its widest historical sense, the Levant included all of the Eastern Mediterranean with its islands; that is, it included all of the countries along the Eastern Mediterranean shores, extending from Greece to Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.”
Source: Wikipedia
[snip] he Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. [/snip]
IOW, this is the first one in a very large, multinational region, to be excavated. That’s all that it says.
Well, no. Levant describes a region that includes Israel. It’s like Meso-America describes a region that includes Guatemala.