By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be wild boars that were hunted. At the dawn of the Iron Age, some 500 years ...

The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115m programme ...

In 2014, the terrorist militia known as the "Islamic State" (IS) began destroying memorials, monuments, churches and even mosques in conquered areas in Iraq and Syria. This area, the heart of former ...

With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today, the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people.

Busayra, located 20 km south of Tafileh, was the ancient capital of the Edomite Kingdom. The first record about Busayra was ...

A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian city on Monday, killing at least 19 people, all but one of them ...

During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind ...

As the early morning mist clears with the sunrise, a unique group of international practitioners of the ancient art of Mamluk ...

The beads were identified as amber, something that was not common in Syria during the Iron Age and originated from the Baltic ...

Is the Bible historically reliable? To answer these questions, I would like to invite you to follow me, licensed tour guide Avi Abrams, on a virtual tour of ancient history, as we compare and contrast ...

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...