Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered rare infant remains at Hittite site Uşaklı Höyük, shedding light on ancient burial customs ...

In the Amfissa Valley, an ancient footpath winds through thousand-year-old olive groves to the ancient ruins of Delphi — and ...

Archaeologists uncovered the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais. A team of archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais ...

Summary "The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East offers a comprehensive and fully illustrated survey of the history of Egypt and Western Asia (Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Iran) in five ...

Vancouver Island photographer Colby Rex O'Neill has had restless nights as a wildfire burns less than a kilometre from his ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...

At least one person died and homes and farmlands were destroyed as wildfires stoked by gale-force winds broke out across ...

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that early human groups shared similar burial practices, including deliberate ...

Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ...

Object Details Author Starr, Chester G. 1914-1999 Contents On the track of early man: The earliest food-gatherers -- The later food-gatherers -- The food-raisers -- The origins of civilization: ...

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal that includes papers read at the American Philosophical Society’s biannual meetings, independent essays by outside scholars, ...