Using modern interpretations of ancient Hebrew, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian sources to determine plant species and uses. Introduction...
Levant
Outside of pre-Maccabean Israelite religious literature, evidence for the name and the origins of the Philistines is...
Since ancient times animals have been the source of medicinal substances used in various cultures. Abstract Animals...
The Westerners managed to maintain a political presence in the region until 1291 CE but were constantly...
Completed in 691 CE, the Dome of the Rock is the oldest extant Islamic building in the...
King Herod had a substantial architectural heritage to his name in the Levant by the time of...
Jericho started as a popular camping ground for the hunter-gathers of the Natufian culture dating to 10000...
Whoever the ancient Canaanites were, their identity was lost in the successive invasions by foreign people interested...
Early Israelite religion may once have shared the Canaanite belief in El and other gods, before the...
The Levant stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and...