An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...

“It would be really exciting to tell the story of Qabra from its own point of view because one thing that historians of the ancient Middle East know well is that certain kinds of ancient documents can ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

Widely implemented in the ancient Middle East, cuneiform, which means “wedge-shaped,” has been a writing model since the early 18th century onward. Britannica noted this framework was the most ...

“It would be really exciting to tell the story of Qabra from its own point of view because one thing that historians of the ancient Middle East know well is that certain kinds of ancient ...