israelite

Is it possible that the Israelites develop a strong seafaring tradition in the vein of the Phoenicians and set out to colonize far flung lands and establish outposts throughout the Mediterranean, eventually leading to a Carthage analogue somewhere along the North African coast?

The Book of Mormon tells of a world where four main groups of Hebrew refugees from Palestine (the Nephites, the Mulekites, the Lamanites and the Jeredites) take an ark, built by a prophet Nephi, from West Africa to Brazil around the year 1500 BC. They take with them Old World crops, animals, and...

After seeing a thread about the lack of good Ancient Near East TLs on the forums, I revived a TL that I made last year about an alternate Iron Age. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On an early morning in 874 BC a...

One nation that has always fascinated me is the Khazars. For those who don't know, the Khazars were a Turkic people living in what is now Ukraine and Southern Russia. They were one of the major steppe invaders, following the Huns and Avars and establishing a nomadic empire that lasted centuries...