Some of the world's first city-kingdoms formed in the Levant and Mesopotamia during the Early Bronze Age. The researchers wanted to study the fingerprints on the pottery to learn more about how ...

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

A Oxford Journal of Archaeology publication by Reli Avisar examines how vassal kingdoms, elite consumption ... expansion across the southern Levant, Lachish appears to have remained intact ...

Hawkins added that Faust discussed the function of fortified sites and fortified structures outside the main towns in the kingdoms of Judah ... Sennacherib's campaign in southern Levant in 701 ...

This paper quantifies the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the ...