A new study combining archaeological, historical and bioarchaeological data provides new insights into the early Islamic period in modern-day Syria. The research team was planning to focus on a much ...

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Who exactly were the Aurignacians, who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? Researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Ben-Gurion University now report that these ...

A lead and wood artifact discovered in a roughly 6,000-year-old grave in a desert cave is the oldest evidence of smelted lead on record in the Levant, a new study finds. The artifact, which looks like ...

A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped create the conditions that led Neolithic communities to discover how fire ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... For centuries, the Levant—that fertile crescent stretching from the Mediterranean coast through Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and ...

The United States and its allies compete with Iran in a steadily more unsettled and uncertain Levant. The political upheavals in the Middle East, economic and demographic pressures, sectarian ...

The Levant, which gets its name from the French word “to rise,” refers to the land of the “sunrise”: Mediterranean coastal countries including Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. It’s a region ...

For decades, international diplomacy in the Middle East has followed two equally flawed tracks. On one side are the utopian dreamers, proposing grand, multi-lateral “environmental peacebuilding” ...