The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

The First Arabs: Merchants, Miners, and Navigators. The earliest Arabs, Semitic peoples related to the Akkadians of Mesopotamia, the Canaanites and Hebrews of the Levant, and the Abyssinians of ...

AMMAN - During the Middle Bronze Age, Levant was squeezed between Egypt and Mesopotamian political centres. In the neighbourhood of Levan Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...

During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind Syria and Mesopotamia. But literacy is key for longevity ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

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.

Most of the remaining textual sources from Mesopotamia are of a historical or commemorative nature, and thus for the Middle Bronze Age this remains our only detailed “eye witness” account of the ...

AMMAN — During the Middle Bronze Age, Levant was squeezed between Egypt and Mesopotamian political centres. In the neighbourhood of Levant, the earliest Greek fortifications attested are those at Late ...

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, scientists say these sites were smaller and less socio-politically complex than contemporary sites in the Levant and Mesopotamia. So al-Natah, according to researchers, ...