During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind ...

A recent study indicates that urban development in this region advanced at a slower pace than in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant during the same period, though it was not entirely absent.

Urbanization has been difficult to study in northern Arabia due to a lack of well-preserved archaeological sites compared to better-understood areas such as the Levant and Mesopotamia. However ...

This broad survey investigates the development of the so-called "Cradles of civilization, " Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant and Persia. At times the class will dip deeply into these ...