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A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Turning off the tap until the violence stops is the logical response when perpetrators drink at the victim’s well ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

The writer joined the crew of the Leon Thevenin as they trawled the bottom of the ocean looking for a break in a cable.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Perhaps the most notorious chapter of the Kurdish genocide is referred to as the Anfal, which literally means the spoils of ...

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...

The survey is being conducted in partnership with the Arabian Geophysical and Surveying Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...