Mesopotamian clay maps, dating back 5,000 years, provide a fascinating glimpse into the ancient world’s perception of ...

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...

The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other. Widespread ...

Since acquiring the tablet in 1882, the British Museum made a significant breakthrough when it found a piece that had been ...

In modern Iraq, the ruins of ancient Babylon have witnessed epochs of historic turmoil. They now face an uncertain future, ...

"The first edition of the handbook appeared, in German, in 1875; its writer was Dr. Albert Socin ... The present is the fifth English edition and is based, like the two preceding editions, on the ...

The agricultural societies of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Ancient Near East made strategic resource management decisions ...

News that the constellations are not in alignment with the zodiac has thrown notions of astrology and the zodiac into ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be seen as a kind of time traveler. It cannot carry people through centuries, but it can move through the data left behind. From old texts to forgotten places, AI can ...

To call Jewish self-determination “colonialism” while ignoring the Arab conquests that Islamized the region uses historical erasure as a weapon against Israel.The post The colonialism no one talks abo ...

New research introduces a paleoenvironmental model in which tidal dynamics influenced the earliest development of agriculture and sociopolitical complexity in Sumer.