Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East studies at Mutah University—began looking for Tharais. The field project ...

Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

The remains of a newly discovered suburb of the ancient city of Cahokia are right in the path of a new interstate freeway in East St. Louis. Visitors paddling up from the Mississippi 900 years ago ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning a $40 million initiative to renovate its Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries, museum officials announced on Tuesday.

The ancient Assyrians have been judged somewhat unfairly as brutal people whose only desire was to conquer their neighbors. Although this is true to some extent, it overlooks the important role the ...

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 268. Maps, tables., diagr., chron., notes, biblio., index. $99.99. ISBN: 1108499503 Why Did Ancient Kings Hire Greek Mercenaries? By ...

Recognised as the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Lands, the Madaba Mosaic Map was crafted during the reign of Emperor Justinian.

Near Eastern sirens, for example, exhibit a number of variations, such as helmet-wearing and Janus-headed figures (8). Greek Sirens, on the other hand, are fairly uniform (9). The style of the faces ...

This resource provides unparalleled access to the archives’ collection of squeezes from ancient Near Eastern archaeological sites. The squeezes were created in the early 20th century by the German ...

A 3,400-year-old palace has been revealed on the banks of the Tigris river after drought caused water levels in a major reservoir to recede. The Bronze Age site in Kurdistan, northern Iraq, dating ...

DNA found at archaeological sites reveals that the origins of our domestic cat are in the Near East and ancient Egypt. Cats were domesticated by the first farmers some 10,000 years ago. They later ...