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Arabic variety spoken in the Levant
Genetic, historical and scholarly sources repeated in current reporting show Ashkenazi Jews are a recognized Jewish ethnoreligious group with clear links to ancient Levantine/Jewish populations and a ...
Mizrahi Jews in Israel trace origins to Middle Eastern and North African communities and , with genetics studies showing stronger regional continuity and less European admixture than Ashkenazim . Thes...
Ancient Egyptian inscriptions record a people or group written as P-r-s-t (commonly vocalized Peleset) in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, and Assyrian cuneiform records later use forms like Pa...
show substantial genetic continuity with and : genome-wide studies model large fractions of contemporary Levantine ancestry as deriving from Bronze‑Age “Canaanite”–like and Iron‑Age local groups, with...
Palestinian genetic diversity today reflects long-standing local continuity in the Southern Levant combined with layered inputs from migrations, conquests, and episodic gene flow rather than wholesale...
Major genetic work on Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry falls into three broad classes—genome‑wide autosomal surveys, uniparental (mitochondrial and Y‑chromosome) analyses, and ancient DNA—from which a consis...