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I read the section on the Bronze Age in the Levant, but this section focuses mainly on the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Anatolian/Aegean regions with almost no real discussion of the Levant. This section should be completely rewritten with the proper geographic focus in mind. I haven't looked at the other sections, but someone willing may check those as well. 71.196.135.148 ( talk) 19:04, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Somebody added a PDF version of the article. Not sure that this is a good idea, since a) waste of disk space and bandwidth if done for every article b) PDF version will soon be out-of-date.
? I fail to see the logic in having a pdf version of the very same article. Anon is right this will be out of date in a short time. -- mav
A definition of the word "Levant" would be nice. --
Auric The Rad 20:55, Nov 25, 2003 (UTC)
I have completely rewritten the article on the "Stone Age" going back to Middle Paleolithic period (90,000 BCE). Does anyone know if Acheulian hand-axes have been found in the Levant?
John D. Croft 15:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
In the "See also" section, there is a link to the article History of Egypt. Egypt is located in North Africa, and is not in the Levant. So why does this article that's about Levantine history have a link to Egyptian history?-- Gramaic 05:39, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
The article itself includes much discussion of the entire
Ancient Near East that doesn't belong. It encourages confusion as to the denotation of the term "Levant," and also reinforces the impression that the Levant was just the empty, undeveloped, or backward area where "empires" met to trade and fight.
I assume the inappropriate links share their origin with the inappropriate text. And I suspect that origin has something to do with the article once having a different title.
-- Americist 18:57, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
As well as merging with Syro-Palestine I think it would be worth thinking about merging this article with Levant. Levant isn't particularly long and an edited version of the current article could function neatly as a subset of that article. Any thoughts? Saganaki- 00:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Please include references, footnotes, something I can refer to obtain more information (elaboration). Goodnight3455 17:17, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Arabs existed in Levant since the Nabatean migrations, and probably earlier. Where is that meantioned in this article??
Under Tigran the great, in the last century BC, the empire of Armenia stretched from the Mediteranean to the Caspian. Please research and add their glorious accomplishments and cultural achievements
No sign of any discussion of the tags, so I'm removing them. PiCo ( talk) 02:29, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Maybe nobody has noticed, but this article is about the history of the Levant, yet the Bronze Age section of this article (a chunk of the article that is 8 paragraphs long) does not mention the Levant once in that whole section. Instead, it is mostly concerned with Mesopotamia with a little talk about Anatolia and Egypt thrown in. Repeating myself, not one mention of what the History of the Levant during the Bronze Age is to be found in the 8 paragraph section about the Bronze Age. — al-Shimoni ( talk) 04:55, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm copying an IP's edits here - note that a number of statements have been numbered and the IP's request at the bottom. I haven't been able to show the text changes I reverted but they need attention as I have no reason to think they were wrong:
A second move out of Africa is demonstrated by the Boker Tachtit Upper Paleolithic culture, from 52–50,000 BC, with humans at Ksar Akil XXV level being modern humans. [1] [1] This culture bears close resemblance to the Badoshan Aurignacian culture of Iran, and the later Sebilian I Egyptian culture of c. 50,000 BC [2]. Stephen Oppenheimer [2]
It would appear this sets the date by which Homo sapiens Upper Paleolithic cultures begin replacing Neanderthal Levalo- Mousterian, and by c. 40,000 BC Palestine was occupied by the Levanto-Aurignacian Ahmarian culture, lasting from 39–24,000 BC. [3] This culture was quite successful spreading as the Antelian culture (late Aurignacian), as far as Southern Anatolia, with the Atlitan culture.
After the Late Glacial Maxima, a new Epipaleolithic culture appears in Southern Palestine. Extending from 23–15,000 BP, the Kebaran culture [4] shows clear connections to the earlier Microlithic cultures using the bow and arrow, and using grinding stones to harvest wild grains, that developed from the c. 19,000–15,000 BP Halfan culture [3] of Egypt, that came from the still earlier Aterian tradition of the Sahara [4]. Some linguists see this as the earliest arrival of Nostratic languages in the Middle East [5]. Kebaran culture was quite successful, and may have been ancestral to the later Natufian culture (15,00–11,500 BP), which extended throughout the whole of the Levantine region. These people pioneered the first sedentary settlements, and may have supported themselves from fishing, and from the harvest of wild grains plentiful in the region at that time.
Natufian culture also demonstrates the earliest domestication of the dog, and the assistance of this animal in hunting and guarding human settlements may have contributed to the successful spread of this culture. In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran (which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran).
By 9500–8500 BC, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA) culture developed out of the earlier local tradition of Natufian in Southern Palestine, dwelling in round houses, and building the first defensive site at Jericho (guarding a valuable fresh water spring). This was replaced in 8500 BC by Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ( PPNB), dwelling in square houses, coming from Northern Syria and the Euphrates bend.
During the period of 8500–7500 BC, another hunter-gatherer group, showing clear affinities with the cultures of Egypt (particularly the Outacha retouch technique for working stone) was in Sinai [6]. This Harifian culture [5] may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture [7] and Helwan culture of Egypt (which lasted from 9000 to 4500 BC), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex [8], [6] which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East. These extended southwards along the Red Sea coast and penetrating the Arabian bifacial cultures, which became progressively more Neolithic and pastoral, and extending north and eastwards, to lay the foundations for the tent-dwelling Martu and Akkadian peoples of Mesopotamia.
In the Amuq valley of Syria, PPNB culture seems to have survived, influencing further cultural developments further south. Nomadic elements fused with PPNB to form the Minhata Culture and Yarmukian Culture which were to spread southwards, beginning the development of the classic mixed farming Mediterranean culture, and from 5600 BC were associated with the Ghassulian culture of the region, the first chalcolithic culture of the Levant. This period also witnessed the development of megalithic structures, which continued into the Bronze Age. [7]
[1] It has not been demonstrated that the Upper Palaeolithic in the Near East is the result of a second migration out of Africa since there are no known precursors of the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic in Africa. [2] The Sebilian has nothing to do with the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic. [3] The Kebaran industry is an indigenous technology that originated in the Levant and has no connection with the Halfan of Lower Nubia. [4] The Halfan industry did not originate from the Aterian and both are distinct technologies. [5] Nostratic is considered by most linguists to have originated in Asia. [6] The Harifian culture is not considered by archaeologists to have originated in Egypt and is not known to have used the ouchtata retouch technique. [7] Neither the Harifian, Helwan, nor the Isnan culture produced pottery. [8] The Harifian culture ceased to exist c. 9000 BC it did not merge with the Pre-pottery Neolithic B. This article was poorly researched and many of the statements made here are either out of date or simply invented by the author. Would an editor please redo this section? Dougweller ( talk) 21:06, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Israel is an important part of the Levant. John D. Croft ( talk) 08:24, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to History of the ancient Levant. There's a clear consensus to move and I think there is a reasonable level of support for the "History of the X Levant" format, the question is really whether X should be "ancient" or "pre-Islamic". The problem is that the support is equally split for those two options and I'm not seeing that either option has a stronger argument for it. So I'm supervoting in favour of "ancient" to break the deadlock because this discussion has been open for three weeks and discussion seems to have stalled. If any of the pre-Islamic supporters feel that they've been hard done by I will re-open the RM, but I thought on balance it would be better to have an outcome. I've also created all the other proposed titles as redirects. Jenks24 ( talk) 08:11, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
History of the Levant →
History of the Levant (Ancient) – This article covers really only covers up to the early 600s, as seems fitting given other well devloped articles. Normally a history article that covers just the ancient history of a geographic area reflects that in the article name, as well it should. We could also consider
Ancient history of the Levant. Relisted.
Jenks24 (
talk) 11:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC) --
tahc
chat 19:58, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
The 4th notice on this topic here since 2009 (12 years)! Hello, Houston, nobody out there? Or is it more than just coincidence?
The entire Bronze Age section deals exclusively with Syria with bits of Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Israel/Palestine and Jordan have a different terminology, which is fully missing here. They of course also have a highly relevant BA history. I don't know enough about Lebanon, it might also not be covered. Cyprus is fully missing too, and they were the source of copper in the region. Very poor indeed. Arminden ( talk) 11:54, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
Last paragraph ("In the Amuq valley of Syria" till "megalithic structures, which continued into the Bronze Age."), dealing with the late PPN and containing the only sentence about the Chalcolithic in the article, only has one source at the end: the Scheltema book, which has no online access, and is written by a diplomat. Is it RS? Back to the days of Clermont-Ganneau, Barclay et Cie.? Useful it's certainly not. How much of the paragraph is it supposed to cover? Look it up: Scheltema, H.G. (2008). Megalithic Jordan: An Introduction and Field Guide. ASOR, Amman, ISBN 978-9957-8543-3-1.
Was Minhata a pre-pottery or pottery culture? Red link unhelpful. Yarmukian was an early pottery culture (PNA), it should be in the text, clicking back & forth is not reader-friendly.
Tell el-Ghassul is the type-site for the Middle and Late Chalcolithic culture, while also containing some Neolithic material, which does not belong to the Ghassulian culture. In any case, 5600 BCE is definitely too early for the Ghassulian culture - where does this date come from? The inaccessible source problem, again.
Ghassulian culture is Middle and Late Chalcolithic, so not the first Chalcolithic culture of the Levant, where Early Ch. is also found.
There is close to nothing on the Chalcolithic, which is a very important period in the Levant.
The Chalcolithic is not considered by all to be part of the Neolithic, deserves separate treatment and paragraph.
"This period also witnessed the development of megalithic structures" - which period? There's a salad of several available on the buffet (PPN, PN, or Chalcolithic). Arminden ( talk) 13:24, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
History of the Levant now redirects automatically to H.o.t. ANCIENT Levant, which makes no sense. Needs urgent fixing (removal). Thanks, Arminden ( talk) 15:13, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
Dubbqawi, hi. I am in awe of your knowledge of Syrian history. I am. I would just like to ask you to allow details regarding Israelites, ancient Israel and Judea, Jews and modern Israel the space these topics deserve. I will refrain like hell to touch any edit you make regarding, say, the Bronze or Iron age cities and kingdoms of Syria, but please, do return the courtesy when it comes to the aforementioned topics, which are, probably for the obvious reasons, not your favourite. This article is soo undersourced that unreferenced changes are much easier to make here than almost anywhere else, but that's the exception, you know. So having a go without a previous discussion can get tricky. Avoiding that will allow everybody to learn from your expertise in matters other people here know far too little about, instead of getting into useless and time-consuming squabbles, which would be a waste. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 01:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
PS: The page is about "History of the ancient Levant". Imagine a user arriving here with questions in mind about areas outside Syria. At the end of your last edit on February 17th, the entire "Bronze Age" section consisted of just two subsections: "Syria" and "Collapse". A bit syrocentric, wouldn't you say? And that isn't the only Syria-heavy section. Forget Palestine or whatever you want to call it: Cyprus still doesn't get any mention. None! All that copper - wasted, for nothing, forgotten! :)) Talking of copper: no Timna and Feynan, no Petra, one single mention of Jerusalem, far more on Arabs and Arabia than on Phoenicians, and so on. Of course, you put in lots of work, and maybe others did less; but you also removed bits from these topics with no explanation. That's my point, I hope we can agree on spreading out the topic a bit more and making room for a horizontal, not just vertical expansion of the article. Thanks again! Arminden ( talk) 01:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
@ Tombah "It seems as though efforts have been made to delete the word 'Palestine,' which is akin to circumventing sanctions."
Quickly spreading throughout Palestine and forming an alliance in the struggle for land against the Philistines to the west, Moab and Ammon to the east, and Edom to the south.
Sarah SchneiderCH ( talk) 21:35, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
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I read the section on the Bronze Age in the Levant, but this section focuses mainly on the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Anatolian/Aegean regions with almost no real discussion of the Levant. This section should be completely rewritten with the proper geographic focus in mind. I haven't looked at the other sections, but someone willing may check those as well. 71.196.135.148 ( talk) 19:04, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Somebody added a PDF version of the article. Not sure that this is a good idea, since a) waste of disk space and bandwidth if done for every article b) PDF version will soon be out-of-date.
? I fail to see the logic in having a pdf version of the very same article. Anon is right this will be out of date in a short time. -- mav
A definition of the word "Levant" would be nice. --
Auric The Rad 20:55, Nov 25, 2003 (UTC)
I have completely rewritten the article on the "Stone Age" going back to Middle Paleolithic period (90,000 BCE). Does anyone know if Acheulian hand-axes have been found in the Levant?
John D. Croft 15:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
In the "See also" section, there is a link to the article History of Egypt. Egypt is located in North Africa, and is not in the Levant. So why does this article that's about Levantine history have a link to Egyptian history?-- Gramaic 05:39, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
The article itself includes much discussion of the entire
Ancient Near East that doesn't belong. It encourages confusion as to the denotation of the term "Levant," and also reinforces the impression that the Levant was just the empty, undeveloped, or backward area where "empires" met to trade and fight.
I assume the inappropriate links share their origin with the inappropriate text. And I suspect that origin has something to do with the article once having a different title.
-- Americist 18:57, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
As well as merging with Syro-Palestine I think it would be worth thinking about merging this article with Levant. Levant isn't particularly long and an edited version of the current article could function neatly as a subset of that article. Any thoughts? Saganaki- 00:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Please include references, footnotes, something I can refer to obtain more information (elaboration). Goodnight3455 17:17, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Arabs existed in Levant since the Nabatean migrations, and probably earlier. Where is that meantioned in this article??
Under Tigran the great, in the last century BC, the empire of Armenia stretched from the Mediteranean to the Caspian. Please research and add their glorious accomplishments and cultural achievements
No sign of any discussion of the tags, so I'm removing them. PiCo ( talk) 02:29, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Maybe nobody has noticed, but this article is about the history of the Levant, yet the Bronze Age section of this article (a chunk of the article that is 8 paragraphs long) does not mention the Levant once in that whole section. Instead, it is mostly concerned with Mesopotamia with a little talk about Anatolia and Egypt thrown in. Repeating myself, not one mention of what the History of the Levant during the Bronze Age is to be found in the 8 paragraph section about the Bronze Age. — al-Shimoni ( talk) 04:55, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm copying an IP's edits here - note that a number of statements have been numbered and the IP's request at the bottom. I haven't been able to show the text changes I reverted but they need attention as I have no reason to think they were wrong:
A second move out of Africa is demonstrated by the Boker Tachtit Upper Paleolithic culture, from 52–50,000 BC, with humans at Ksar Akil XXV level being modern humans. [1] [1] This culture bears close resemblance to the Badoshan Aurignacian culture of Iran, and the later Sebilian I Egyptian culture of c. 50,000 BC [2]. Stephen Oppenheimer [2]
It would appear this sets the date by which Homo sapiens Upper Paleolithic cultures begin replacing Neanderthal Levalo- Mousterian, and by c. 40,000 BC Palestine was occupied by the Levanto-Aurignacian Ahmarian culture, lasting from 39–24,000 BC. [3] This culture was quite successful spreading as the Antelian culture (late Aurignacian), as far as Southern Anatolia, with the Atlitan culture.
After the Late Glacial Maxima, a new Epipaleolithic culture appears in Southern Palestine. Extending from 23–15,000 BP, the Kebaran culture [4] shows clear connections to the earlier Microlithic cultures using the bow and arrow, and using grinding stones to harvest wild grains, that developed from the c. 19,000–15,000 BP Halfan culture [3] of Egypt, that came from the still earlier Aterian tradition of the Sahara [4]. Some linguists see this as the earliest arrival of Nostratic languages in the Middle East [5]. Kebaran culture was quite successful, and may have been ancestral to the later Natufian culture (15,00–11,500 BP), which extended throughout the whole of the Levantine region. These people pioneered the first sedentary settlements, and may have supported themselves from fishing, and from the harvest of wild grains plentiful in the region at that time.
Natufian culture also demonstrates the earliest domestication of the dog, and the assistance of this animal in hunting and guarding human settlements may have contributed to the successful spread of this culture. In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran (which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran).
By 9500–8500 BC, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA) culture developed out of the earlier local tradition of Natufian in Southern Palestine, dwelling in round houses, and building the first defensive site at Jericho (guarding a valuable fresh water spring). This was replaced in 8500 BC by Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ( PPNB), dwelling in square houses, coming from Northern Syria and the Euphrates bend.
During the period of 8500–7500 BC, another hunter-gatherer group, showing clear affinities with the cultures of Egypt (particularly the Outacha retouch technique for working stone) was in Sinai [6]. This Harifian culture [5] may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture [7] and Helwan culture of Egypt (which lasted from 9000 to 4500 BC), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex [8], [6] which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East. These extended southwards along the Red Sea coast and penetrating the Arabian bifacial cultures, which became progressively more Neolithic and pastoral, and extending north and eastwards, to lay the foundations for the tent-dwelling Martu and Akkadian peoples of Mesopotamia.
In the Amuq valley of Syria, PPNB culture seems to have survived, influencing further cultural developments further south. Nomadic elements fused with PPNB to form the Minhata Culture and Yarmukian Culture which were to spread southwards, beginning the development of the classic mixed farming Mediterranean culture, and from 5600 BC were associated with the Ghassulian culture of the region, the first chalcolithic culture of the Levant. This period also witnessed the development of megalithic structures, which continued into the Bronze Age. [7]
[1] It has not been demonstrated that the Upper Palaeolithic in the Near East is the result of a second migration out of Africa since there are no known precursors of the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic in Africa. [2] The Sebilian has nothing to do with the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic. [3] The Kebaran industry is an indigenous technology that originated in the Levant and has no connection with the Halfan of Lower Nubia. [4] The Halfan industry did not originate from the Aterian and both are distinct technologies. [5] Nostratic is considered by most linguists to have originated in Asia. [6] The Harifian culture is not considered by archaeologists to have originated in Egypt and is not known to have used the ouchtata retouch technique. [7] Neither the Harifian, Helwan, nor the Isnan culture produced pottery. [8] The Harifian culture ceased to exist c. 9000 BC it did not merge with the Pre-pottery Neolithic B. This article was poorly researched and many of the statements made here are either out of date or simply invented by the author. Would an editor please redo this section? Dougweller ( talk) 21:06, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Israel is an important part of the Levant. John D. Croft ( talk) 08:24, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to History of the ancient Levant. There's a clear consensus to move and I think there is a reasonable level of support for the "History of the X Levant" format, the question is really whether X should be "ancient" or "pre-Islamic". The problem is that the support is equally split for those two options and I'm not seeing that either option has a stronger argument for it. So I'm supervoting in favour of "ancient" to break the deadlock because this discussion has been open for three weeks and discussion seems to have stalled. If any of the pre-Islamic supporters feel that they've been hard done by I will re-open the RM, but I thought on balance it would be better to have an outcome. I've also created all the other proposed titles as redirects. Jenks24 ( talk) 08:11, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
History of the Levant →
History of the Levant (Ancient) – This article covers really only covers up to the early 600s, as seems fitting given other well devloped articles. Normally a history article that covers just the ancient history of a geographic area reflects that in the article name, as well it should. We could also consider
Ancient history of the Levant. Relisted.
Jenks24 (
talk) 11:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC) --
tahc
chat 19:58, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
The 4th notice on this topic here since 2009 (12 years)! Hello, Houston, nobody out there? Or is it more than just coincidence?
The entire Bronze Age section deals exclusively with Syria with bits of Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Israel/Palestine and Jordan have a different terminology, which is fully missing here. They of course also have a highly relevant BA history. I don't know enough about Lebanon, it might also not be covered. Cyprus is fully missing too, and they were the source of copper in the region. Very poor indeed. Arminden ( talk) 11:54, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
Last paragraph ("In the Amuq valley of Syria" till "megalithic structures, which continued into the Bronze Age."), dealing with the late PPN and containing the only sentence about the Chalcolithic in the article, only has one source at the end: the Scheltema book, which has no online access, and is written by a diplomat. Is it RS? Back to the days of Clermont-Ganneau, Barclay et Cie.? Useful it's certainly not. How much of the paragraph is it supposed to cover? Look it up: Scheltema, H.G. (2008). Megalithic Jordan: An Introduction and Field Guide. ASOR, Amman, ISBN 978-9957-8543-3-1.
Was Minhata a pre-pottery or pottery culture? Red link unhelpful. Yarmukian was an early pottery culture (PNA), it should be in the text, clicking back & forth is not reader-friendly.
Tell el-Ghassul is the type-site for the Middle and Late Chalcolithic culture, while also containing some Neolithic material, which does not belong to the Ghassulian culture. In any case, 5600 BCE is definitely too early for the Ghassulian culture - where does this date come from? The inaccessible source problem, again.
Ghassulian culture is Middle and Late Chalcolithic, so not the first Chalcolithic culture of the Levant, where Early Ch. is also found.
There is close to nothing on the Chalcolithic, which is a very important period in the Levant.
The Chalcolithic is not considered by all to be part of the Neolithic, deserves separate treatment and paragraph.
"This period also witnessed the development of megalithic structures" - which period? There's a salad of several available on the buffet (PPN, PN, or Chalcolithic). Arminden ( talk) 13:24, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
History of the Levant now redirects automatically to H.o.t. ANCIENT Levant, which makes no sense. Needs urgent fixing (removal). Thanks, Arminden ( talk) 15:13, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
Dubbqawi, hi. I am in awe of your knowledge of Syrian history. I am. I would just like to ask you to allow details regarding Israelites, ancient Israel and Judea, Jews and modern Israel the space these topics deserve. I will refrain like hell to touch any edit you make regarding, say, the Bronze or Iron age cities and kingdoms of Syria, but please, do return the courtesy when it comes to the aforementioned topics, which are, probably for the obvious reasons, not your favourite. This article is soo undersourced that unreferenced changes are much easier to make here than almost anywhere else, but that's the exception, you know. So having a go without a previous discussion can get tricky. Avoiding that will allow everybody to learn from your expertise in matters other people here know far too little about, instead of getting into useless and time-consuming squabbles, which would be a waste. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 01:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
PS: The page is about "History of the ancient Levant". Imagine a user arriving here with questions in mind about areas outside Syria. At the end of your last edit on February 17th, the entire "Bronze Age" section consisted of just two subsections: "Syria" and "Collapse". A bit syrocentric, wouldn't you say? And that isn't the only Syria-heavy section. Forget Palestine or whatever you want to call it: Cyprus still doesn't get any mention. None! All that copper - wasted, for nothing, forgotten! :)) Talking of copper: no Timna and Feynan, no Petra, one single mention of Jerusalem, far more on Arabs and Arabia than on Phoenicians, and so on. Of course, you put in lots of work, and maybe others did less; but you also removed bits from these topics with no explanation. That's my point, I hope we can agree on spreading out the topic a bit more and making room for a horizontal, not just vertical expansion of the article. Thanks again! Arminden ( talk) 01:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
@ Tombah "It seems as though efforts have been made to delete the word 'Palestine,' which is akin to circumventing sanctions."
Quickly spreading throughout Palestine and forming an alliance in the struggle for land against the Philistines to the west, Moab and Ammon to the east, and Edom to the south.
Sarah SchneiderCH ( talk) 21:35, 26 April 2023 (UTC)