context: The Ancient Near East refers to an early civilization in the modern Middle East area of ​​the present. Consisting of Mesopotamia (Iraq and northeast Syria), Ancient Egypt, Ancient Iran (Elam, Media, Parthia and Persia), Armenia, Anatolia (Turkey) and the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Cyprus, and Crete).
question: Where is the Ancient Near East?
answers.text: Middle East