Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

Watch The Fertile Crescent announcement trailer for this Bronze Age RTS game inspired by the civilizations of the ancient Near East. Update 1.3 is out now for The Fertile Crescent, featuring ...

2 weeks, 2 days - Watch The Fertile Crescent announcement trailer for this Bronze Age RTS game inspired by the civilizations of the ancient Near East. Update 1.3 is out now for The Fertile Crescent, ...

A genderless human figurine, carved 8,000 years ago, raises questions about how agriculture arrived in the South Caucasus.

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Recently, Mutin and geochemist Antoine Zazzo of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris led a team that used new methods of radiocarbon dating to analyze tooth enamel from 23 Neolithic people ...

Never once did I piece together the convergence of lahmajun and kleicha in my life. I’ve always understood myself to be an Iraqi-American, the proud daughter of two Iraqi immigrants. I grew up with ...