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.

NEW YORK — Oscar Levant, one of the great interpreters of George Gershwin’s music, was as renowned for his rueful wit as he was for his virtuosic piano skills. His wisecracks made him a ...

AMMAN — During 200 years of Crusades in the Levant, many fortifications were built as the first landscapes of that historical period. However, European settlers lived in smaller communities in the ...

Geography of the Levant.* Share full article. May 17, 1902. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 17, 1902, Section BR, Page 18 Buy Reprints.

A study published by Dr Holly Winter in the journal Levant investigated the potential origin of Funerary Palaces in the southern Levant. Using various pieces of evidence, including architectural ...

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 ...

While Homo sapiens arrived in the region between 170,000 and 90,000 years ago and re-entered the region 55,000 years ago from Africa, Neanderthals came into the Levant from Europe around 120,000 ...

The Levant now serves as an important connection between the same two powers but for a different purpose: subsea cables. Data transmission across the globe relies on an extensive network of subsea and ...

The 1934 Fair represented the largest and most prestigious concentration of buildings executed in the International Style up to the time; it made a crucial contribution to a local evolution of ...