Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...

Excavations show Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted in 5th-century Mesopotamia, revealed through early architecture at ...

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

A settlement in the United Arab Emirates, a witness to commercial and cultural exchanges from the Bronze Age to the beginning of our era, sheds new light on the ancient history of maritime and ...

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

Makeup is often seen as modern glamour, but its story is ancient — a language of identity, power, protection, and ritual that ...

Discover an ancient Middle Eastern delight: dates stuffed with butter. This energy-dense treat, dating back to 4000 BCE, ...

Fire departments went to Middlefield Village to fill their tankers with water to fight the blaze. The blaze was under control in about half an hour, but firefighters expected to remain on the scene ...

2 Russians, 2 Jews, and a Puerto Rican walk into a bar ...

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 ...

Archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo is working to create an online database of Sudan's archaeological sites and museum collections. The France-based project is urgent as the ongoing war in Sudan has led ...