Alongside the fort, the mission uncovered housing units, the eastern gates of the two known forts, a limestone road, and ...

The map highlights the city of Palmyra in central ... also brutalized historic sites scattered across a land central to many ancient Middle Eastern civilizations. The historic souks, caravansaries ...

The French Institute of the Near East (IFPO) in Amman on Monday unveiled a newly released publication documenting ten years of research on urban architecture in Palestine. The project, led by French ...

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

The book offers a useful timeline, though pictures of the ten ancient items and a map would have been useful additions ... of ...

Maps have been around since humans could communicate through drawings to describe the location of a specific place. Some of ...

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...

And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur ... The expert claims, after consulting a reconstructed map of the Earth in 500 B.C., "it becomes ...

With tourism rebounding strongly, Africa is showing its potential as a travel destination with something for everyone.