For centuries, the ancient Philistines have been a prominent, yet enigmatic, group in historical accounts, particularly in the narratives of the ancient Levant. Their true origins—whether they ...

A lead and wood artifact discovered in a roughly 6,000-year-old grave in a desert cave is the oldest evidence of smelted lead on record in the Levant, a new study finds.

The term "ancient Israel" is used by scholars to refer to the tribes, kingdoms and dynasties formed by ancient Jewish people in the Levant (an area that encompasses modern-day Israel, Palestine ...

Ancient life in Levant: Revealing Pella’s urban wonders ... The Australian team reconstructed a daily life of people living in that structure and found a cooking installation on a bench against the ...

The ancient people of Carthage, located in modern Tunisia, did not have ancestry in common with the Levantine Phoenicians that established their culture, according to a new study. J. M. W. Turner ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the ...

Prof. Been elaborates on some of the differences observed, "In the Levant during MI6-MI3, we are not aware of H. sapiens burials within caves. All of their burials are in cave entrances or in rock ...

People in the Levant didn’t begin using minted coins until almost 1,000 years after these pieces of broken silver were used as currency, ... about daily life in the ancient Levant.