When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Out of 329 total seats in the Iraqi Parliament, five are reserved for Christians, distributed across Baghdad, Nineveh, Kirkuk ...

Hamas handed over bodies of three hostages on Sunday (November 2), even as the Palestinian militant group traded blame with ...

Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They found a few artifacts, including a seemingly unimportant broken piece of ...

A monumental 5,000-year-old cultic space unearthed in Iraq may redefine how archaeologists understand the earliest urban societies and their spiritual foundations.

Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" or temple for worship.

This Sunday, we will all dutifully set our clocks back one hour for daylight saving time. But why is our day divided into 24 hours, each hour divided into 60 ...

The Elamite Empire, which dates back to 3200–539 BCE, is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world, that ...

The exhibit appeared in Houston; San Francisco; Sydney, Paris, and Cologne before arriving in Japan in March. Continued ...