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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

A trip to Urfa is a spiritual and religious experience, not merely a geographical one. It doesn’t offer the shallow ...

Eighteen of 46 skulls from subsidiary burials at Abydos showed potentially lethal injuries inflicted near the time of death.

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 ...

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

From Lawrence of Arabia to the archaeologist of Türkiye's founder, foreign scholars working across Ottoman lands crossed into wartime intelligence and espionage networks ...