The director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East replies to Ruth Wisse.

Alongside the fort, the mission uncovered housing units, the eastern gates of the two known forts, a limestone road, and ...

A Classics researcher at the University of Cincinnati is using today's technology to learn more about the mass production and ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, according to a recently published study.

“Ten thousand years ago, the mammoth roamed throughout the state and claimed Utah as their home. Now they roam again,” ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

Scientists believe that a cave east of Athens was a hideout for lions which roamed the ancient Greek countryside thousands of ...

A bushwalker has made a grisly discovery at the bottom of an ancient well in a tiny Australian ... who found the well indicated there were two eastern brown snakes, shingleback lizards and a ...

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...