The artifact, which looks like something between an ancient wand and a tiny sword, suggests that people in Israel's northern Negev desert learned how to smelt lead during the Late Chalcolithic, a ...

For centuries, the ancient Philistines have been a prominent, yet enigmatic, group in historical accounts, particularly in the narratives of the ancient Levant. Their true origins—whether they ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

The term "ancient Israel" is used by scholars to refer to the tribes, kingdoms and dynasties formed by ancient Jewish people in the Levant (an area that encompasses modern-day Israel, Palestine ...

The ancient people of Carthage, located in modern Tunisia, did not have ancestry in common with the Levantine Phoenicians that established their culture, according to a new study. J. M. W. Turner ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, ... The new study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for genetic links between ...

The recent letter, “How are Jews not an indigenous people of Israel,” oversimplifies the complex and long history of the Levant and Palestinian people. Judaism indeed originated in the Levant ...

Prof. Been elaborates on some of the differences observed, "In the Levant during MI6-MI3, we are not aware of H. sapiens burials within caves. All of their burials are in cave entrances or in rock ...