developed in the region. Previously regarded as a peripheral region in the ancient Near East, modern academia largely considers the Levant as a center of civilization...

The Levant (/ləˈvænt/ lə-VANT) is the subregion that borders the Eastern Mediterranean sea to the west and core West Asia, or by the geopolitical term...

autosomal DNA tests to identify the genetic history of ancient and modern populations of Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, and other...

the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. The earliest documented mention of "Israel" as a people appears on the Merneptah Stele, an ancient Egyptian inscription...

North Africa, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and Carthage from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity, with some, such...

Iraq history of Upper Mesopotamia Anatolia: history of Anatolia history of Turkey Canaan: history of the ancient Levant history of Cyprus history of Israel...

Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly...

The term "Fertile Crescent" was popularized by archaeologist James Henry Breasted in Outlines of European History (1914) and Ancient Times, A History...

Ancient Egypt spans the period of Egyptian history from the early prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman conquest of Egypt in...

Sea—the lowest point on the Earth's land surface. The Southern Levant has a long history and is one of the world's most intensively investigated areas by...

through the Fertile Crescent to the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea and throughout the Levant, as well as to Anatolia. Ancient Levantine kingdoms and city...

The prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions...

history, there have been many names of the Levant, a large area in the Near East, or its constituent parts. These names have applied to a part or the...

highlands, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. As such, the fields of ancient Near East studies and Near Eastern archaeology are one of the most prominent...

Maghreb region of North Africa, encompassing present-day Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, from their homeland of Phoenicia in the Levant region, including...

The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arabic: فَتْحُ الشَّام, romanized: Fatḥ al-šām; lit. 'Conquest of Syria'), or Arab conquest of Syria, was a 634–638...

Judah History of Gaza City History of Israel History of the ancient Levant History of the Gaza Strip History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel...

history. One of the oldest known Neolithic sites in Mesopotamia is Jarmo, settled around 7000 BC and broadly contemporary with Jericho (in the Levant)...

symbols. The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th...

To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire. Events and persons of the Kingdom of Rome (and to some...

available to the Egyptians through trade if not produced domestically. In ancient times, the Levant region has played a vital role in the domain of winemaking...

The history of Christianity began with the life of Jesus, an itinerant Jewish preacher and teacher, who was crucified in Jerusalem c. AD 30–33. His followers...

during the New Kingdom, which extended its rule to much of Nubia and a considerable portion of the Levant. After this period, Egypt entered an era of slow...

The history of the Knights Hospitaller in the Levant is concerned with the early years of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the Knights...

predominate in urban areas, the latter remaining in rural areas. By the time of the Muslim conquest of the Levant, the number of Jewish population centers...

the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace and Egypt. The history of archaeological investigation in this region grew out of the 19th century discipline of biblical...

Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean...

The Northern Levant is a geographical region in the Eastern Mediterranean, encompassing the northern part of the Levant, between the Mediterranean in the...

The most pronounced impact of Iranian history can be seen stretching from Anatolia in the west to the Indus Valley in the east, including the Levant,...

transit area. The ancient history of the Negev includes periods of Egyptian and Nabataean dominance, the rise of local cultures such as the Edomites, and...