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The 'Near East' is a modern-age term for the region formerly known as the 'Middle East,' comprising Armenia, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and part of Turkey, corresponding to ancient Urartu, Mesopotamia, Elam, Persia, the Levant, and Anatolia. #History #NearEast #MiddleEast #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-16-en/

Near East: A Modern Term for an Ancient Land

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Petra van Cronenburg Mar 3

@NewsDesk @AssociatedPress If anyone is interested in figures from all three sides, @Bellingcat makes a fantastic and important work of #factchecking, especially in war: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/03/bombs-will-fall-everywhere-the-american-israeli-and-iranian-weapons-being-deployed-in-middle-east/

#investigativeJournalism #nearEast #factcheck #war #IranWar

“Bombs will fall Everywhere”: The American, Israeli and Iranian Weapons Being Deployed in Middle East - bellingcat

Bellingcat has been monitoring strikes across the Middle East and has identified a wide variety of weapons that have been used in the conflict so far, including missiles and drones.

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The Scholar's Stage Mar 1

On Bombing Iran

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://scholars-stage.org/on-bombing-iran/

EAZ Feb 26

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This publication from EAZ 51 (1/2) explores how early archaeologists tried to map migrations, describing the methods and assumptions behind ethno-historical cartographies.
Wiedemann, F. 2010. Waves of Peoples and Bringers of Culture: Origin and Migration Narratives in Historical-Archaeological Interpretations of the Near East Around 1900. EAZ 51 (1/2):105-28.
https://doi.org/10.54799/HAOA5416
#NearEast #Cartography #Research #History #Archaeology #EAZ

Waves of peoples and bringers of culture | EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift

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Stephen Hayes Feb 24

Splendour and catastrophe in the Mediterranean: review of "Levant" by Philip Mansel, which gives the historical background to some current tensions
https://khanya.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/splendour-and-catastrophe-in-the-mediterranean-book-review/
#history #Levant #bookstodon #NearEast #MiddleEast

Splendour and catastrophe in the Mediterranean: book review

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is tale of three cities — Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut. But it is a great deal more …

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