Even before Egypt became a political and military power, during a predynastic period (6,210 BC-3,100 BC), archaeologists and ...

Map shows the Levant region (shaded in orange), which is the western part of the overall Fertile Crescent region (shaded in yellow); the study areas in Israel and Crete are in dashed gray boxes.

Pierre Zalloua, a Lebanese-born population geneticist with a flair for (gently) stirring the pot, takes the reader on an ...

Genomes from people living in the area of Israel and Jordan, the so-called southern Levant region, showed distinct differences to those of people inhabiting the Zagros Mountains. “There has been a ...

We now see the Levant, with its states and societies, shifting to a higher stage of fragmentation that offers Israel a share of the region’s politics and a ... These simple facts show how little ...