During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind ...
The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire ...
Explore the rich history of the ancient spring festivals of the MENA region, including Akitu, Nowruz, and Shamm El-Nessim.
Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of ...
An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...
Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...
The myth of Atlantis has fascinated people around the world ever since Plato first wrote about this sunken city in 365 B.C.E.
Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...