It is likely that modern Homo sapiens first extended out of Africa by crossing the Sinai Peninsula from North Africa and moved into the Levant or eastern Mediterranean.
- Historically, a broad area in Western Asia's Eastern Mediterranean region has been referred to as the Levant.
- It is likely that modern Homo sapiens first extended out of Africa by crossing the Sinai Peninsula from North Africa and moved into the Levant or eastern Mediterranean.
- Levant originally meant "the East" or "Mediterranean lands east of Italy" when it first appeared in the English language in 1497.
- It is derived from the French word levant, which means "rising" and refers to the sun rising in the east or the sunrise location.
- Some of the earliest stone tools manufactured by our ancestors Homo erectus after they left Africa were made by the earliest humans in the Levant at a few known sites in Israel, Syria, and Jordan about 1.7 million years ago.
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