AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social ... the context of the emergence within the region of a number of regional city-states ...

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.

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires ...

This drastically altered landscape, the researchers posit, likely spurred foragers throughout the Levant to settle in fertile valleys and domesticate plants by farming. Read the original scholarly ...

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 ...

It would be reckless, very reckless... to speculate that developments in the Arab region between now and the Arab League summit scheduled for May 17 will follow a logical trajectory!