Hiding in the mountains of the Middle East, a mysterious creature went undetected. The animal was spotted on rare occasions but never identified — until now. The “first well-verified record ...

Legend of the Levant Amin Maalouf's investigative memoir, Origins, traces the history of two people from the mountains of Lebanon to the island of Cuba with one combining factor - their roots ...

THE Island of Zante, in the Ionian Group, to the north-west of the Gulf of Arcadia, is a centre from which no fewer than seven submarine cables radiate, and Mr. Forster has taken advantage of his ...

ANCESTORS: Identity and DNA in the Levant. By Pierre Zalloua. Random House. 288 pages. $31. An ancient crossroads, the Levant is that region of the eastern Mediterranean encompassing the countries ...

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 ...