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.

The people who lived in the area known as the Southern Levant -- which is now recognized as Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, and parts of Syria -- during the Bronze Age (circa ...

Archaeologists in southern Jordan have uncovered the long-lost Byzantine city of Tharais, tucked away on the southeast coast of the Dead Sea. Once lost to history, the rediscovery of the ancient ...

A study published in L'Anthropologie by Professor Ella Been from Ono Academic College and Dr. Omry Barzilai from the ...

A recent archeological dig in central Israel unearthed evidence that Homo Sapiens, humans that inhabit the earth today, likely lived alongside a group of archaic humans known as the Middle Pleistocene ...

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. The ...

Over the course of millennia, inhabitants of the Levant used irrigation to mitigate the effects of climate change and maximize the production of olives and grapes, demonstrating resilience and ...

The tombs of ancient Egypt have yielded golden collars and ivory bracelets, but another treasure — human DNA — has proved elusive. Now, scientists have captured sweeping genomic information from ...