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The Levant is one of the earliest centers of sedentism and agriculture throughout history, and some of the earliest agrarian cultures, Pre-Pottery Neolithic, developed in the region. [3][4][5] Previously regarded as a peripheral region in the ancient Near East, modern academia largely considers the Levant as a center of civilization on its own ...
The Levant (/ ləˈvænt / lə-VANT) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term Middle East. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a stretch of ...
Phoenicia (/ fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə /), [4] or Phœnicia, or the Phoenician city-states, were an ancient Semitic maritime civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5][6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history ...
Levantine archaeology. Levantine archaeology is the archaeological study of the Levant. It is also known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology or Palestinian archaeology[1][2] (particularly when the area of inquiry centers on ancient Palestine [3]). Besides its importance to the discipline of Biblical archaeology, the Levant is highly important when ...
The Kingdom of Judah [a] was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands to the west of the Dead Sea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. [3] It was ruled by the Davidic line for four centuries. [4] Jews are named after Judah, and primarily descend from people who lived in the region. [5] [6] [7]
The prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions in the area of the Levant. Archaeological evidence suggests that Homo sapiens and other hominid species originated in Africa (see hominid dispersal) and that one of the routes taken to colonize ...
Petra was the focus of an American PBS Nova special, "Petra: Lost City of Stone", [110] which premiered in the US and Europe in February 2015. Petra is central to Netflix's first Arabic original series Jinn, which is a young adult supernatural drama about the djinn in the ancient city of Petra. They must try and stop the demons from destroying ...
Natufian culture (/ nəˈtuːfiən / [1]) is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric [2] Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. [3] The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriculture.