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#MENAdoc:
"La France, l'Europe et l'Est méditerranéen depuis deux siècles: économie, finance, diplomatie" by Jacques Thobie

[Istanbul: Éd. Isis, 2007]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/118246

#Turkey #middleeast #Levant #France #Europe #foreignpolicy

📖 **Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit**

"_It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects._"

Boyes, P.J. (2021) Script and Society : The Social context of writing practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52589.

#OpenAccess #OA #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Writing #BronzeAge #Levant #Ugarit @archaeodons @bookstodon

Always great when nationalist myths are debunked using solid scientific backing.

History.Culture.projects: *Palestinians Did Not Come from Arabia: Debunking another Zionist Origin Myth*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-UlTACbko

"This video breaks down the myth that Palestinians are recent arrivals from Arabia by examining historical records, demographic math, and the latest peer-reviewed genetic research. Arab identity was adopted—not imported—by indigenous populations who have lived in Palestine since the Bronze Age.

Sources & Further Reading:
- The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30487-6
- Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam — Peter Brown:
https://dokumen.pub/empires-of-faith-the-fall-of-rome-to-the-rise-of-islam-500-700-oxford-history-of-medieval-europe-9780191620027.html
- The Early Islamic Conquests — Fred M. Donner:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691638898/the-early-islamic-conquests
- The Roman Near East — Fergus Millar:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674778863
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History — Nur Masalha:
https://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Four-Thousand-Year-History/dp/1786992728
- UN Mandate Palestine Census Reports:
https://digitallibrary.un.org/
https://archive.org/search?query=1931+Census+Palestine "

#Palestine #Palestinians #Jews #MizrahiJews #Levant #Levantines #AshkenaziJews #Canaan #Canaanites #Arabs #Arabization #zionism

🧬 **Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes**

“_Their analysis revealed something that seems counterintuitive: Despite the fact that Punic people originally came from the eastern Mediterranean, an area called the Levant, those who were living in Punic settlements several centuries later showed almost no trace of Levantine ancestry._”

🔗 https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-05-29/punic-study.

#Research #News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Ancient #DNA #Levant @archaeodons @anthropology

"The #hamsa itself is not a uniquely #Jewish symbol. It’s used by people of all religions with roots across the #MiddleEast and the #Levant. Some call it the hand of #Fatima (#Mohammad’s daughter), some the hand of #Miriam (after #Moses’ sister). Five is an auspicious number in both #Islam (the five pillars of Islam) and #Judaism (the five books of the #Torah). The symbol’s roots might be in early #Pagan traditions that pre-date monotheistic religions, but it has become a popular symbol in both #Judaism — #Jews are speculated by scholars to be the first to use it as an amulet — and #Islam. Many Jews wear hamsa jewelry and put hamsa amulets around their homes."

https://www.kveller.com/the-jewish-symbol-that-made-it-into-the-last-of-us-season-two-finale/

Just to let you know that Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in relative peace in the Levant before the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism, especially before the establishment of Israel in 1948.

#jews #jew #jewish #christians #christian #muslims #muslim #israel #palestine #levant #zionism #arab #arabs #arabnationalism #antizionism #freepalestine #palestinewillbefree #istandwithpalestine #fuckisrael #antiisrael #forpeace #peace

**From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?**

“_Results from the shipwrecks near Israel strongly suggest that the ‘bronzization’ of the East Mediterranean, occurring 1500–1300 BC, was primarily driven by European tin sources, particularly from south-west Britain, rather than Central Asian sources. Tin ore finds from settlements across Cornwall and Devon suggest a decentralised production model in prehistory, with agriculture still dominant alongside numerous small alluvial tin workings._”

Williams, R.A. et al. (2025) ‘From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?’, Antiquity, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.41.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Trade #Europe #Mediterranean #Britain #Levant #Academia #Academics @archaeodons