Reed Goodman pilots the small boat through the swaying marsh grasses of Forlorn Hope. The tide is low, the breeze cool and ...

Skeletal biologist Simon Mays of Historic England led a team that studied a collection of unusual human remains excavated in ...

Where was civilization born? In Mesopotamia, about 5,000 years ago. That is the common answer. And for good reason: it is the ...

The story of a catastrophic flood appears in the Bible and in several ancient traditions, which has led generations of readers to ask if geology preserves evidence of one enormous event that covered ...

New Ur III cuneiform tablets from the Iraq Museum reveal a royal princess’s estate, new place names, mobile labor and a ...

Underwater surveys at Poompuhar in Tamil Nadu have revealed ancient ring wells, a Persian trade jar and submerged structures ...

At Lake Orestiada in northern Greece, an extraordinary Neolithic settlement offers a glimpse of everyday life some 7,500 ...

Tree-ring dating and radiocarbon research has established an absolute timeline for the archaeological, historical and environmental record in Mesopotamia from the early second millennium B.C.

Tablet IM 204157 in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad records “414.1.0 še gur,” a barley total that the editors of a new Cambridge-published study convert to 124,260 liters “according to the royal gur.” It ...

Israel Museum traces the lives of children through 500,000 years of artifacts: 'What’s amazing about these toys is how ...

About Göbekli Tepe. Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey.

As the sun sets, the ancient city of Mardin glows with warm golden light. Built from honey-colored limestone, its homes cascade down the hillside beneath a centuries-old fortress overlooking the ...