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 ...

For thousands of years, Istanbul has marked the point where East meets West — a true crossroads of civilizations. Once known ...

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

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Tens of thousands attend Mass for Francis in East Timor Tens of thousands of mourners ... streamed in Saturday to get a spot ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

“It is, admittedly, quite weird…. But just because it’s unfamiliar to us doesn’t mean it’s nonsense. Imagine if we somehow plopped Abram down into this year’s Kentucky Derby. Or at the starting line ...

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

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 ...

As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam ... How do we know that all of this actually happened near the Dead Sea in Jordan millennia ago?