WebOld South Arabian (or Ṣayhadic or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages spoken in the far southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula.They were written in the Ancient South Arabian script.. There were a number of other Old South Arabian languages (e.g. Awsānian), of which very little evidence has survived, however.

WebThe Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic subregions of Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara/Sahel. With the …

WebThe Fertile Crescent (Arabic: الهلال الخصيب) is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan, together with the northern region of Kuwait, southeastern region of Turkey and the western portion of Iran. Some authors also include Cyprus and Northern Egypt.. The Fertile Crescent is …

WebOne of the only two known artifacts containing the "Moabite" dialect of Canaanite languages (the second is the El-Kerak Inscription) COS 2.23 / ANET 320–321 Tel Dan Stele: Israel Museum: 1993, Tel Dan: c.800 BC: ... Phoenician alphabet (also known as Paleo-Hebrew) c.2,000 stamp impressions, translated as "belonging to the King" COS 2.77 / EP: Ekron …

WebPalmyra (/ ˌ p æ l ˈ m aɪ r ə /; Palmyrene: 𐡶𐡣𐡬𐡥𐡴 ‎ Tadmor; Arabic: تَدْمُر Tadmur) is an ancient city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria.Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early second millennium BC. Palmyra changed hands on a number of occasions between different empires before …

WebLe royaume d'Israël est un royaume du Proche-Orient ancien établi par les Israélites à l'âge du fer.Il existe pendant environ 200 ans, de la fin du X e au VIII e siècle av. J.-C. (environ 930-720 av. J.-C.).Les historiens le nomment souvent royaume de Samarie ou royaume du Nord pour le différencier du royaume de Juda, au sud.Selon la Bible hébraïque, il …

WebLes esséniens (du grec : Ἐσσηνοί, « essēnoi » ; Ἐσσαῖοι, « essaíoi » ; ou Ὀσσαῖοι, « ossaíoi » [Note 1]) sont un mouvement du judaïsme de la période du Second Temple qui a prospéré à partir du II e siècle av. J.-C. et dont l'existence est attestée au I er siècle en Judée.. Au I er siècle, les esséniens sont mentionnés dans Apologia pro Judaeis (« Apologie en faveur …