Set in a stunning valley, this ancient desert oasis has birthed flourishing ... the relationships people build with deserts. In the Middle East, humans have found ways to survive and even thrive ...

The ancient city was also on a trade route between the ... cementing its continued status as one of the most important cities in the Middle East and Islamic world. It is a reputation that survives ...

The heart of occupied Nablus is one of the most ancient cities in the Middle East. With two churches, 12 mosques and a Samaritan synagogue around densely populated residential areas, the occupied ...

The Middle East is considered the birthplace ... the first major city-states emerged in what is roughly the modern state of Iraq Here, ancient peoples like the Sumerians developed early forms ...

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners, even those from sites linked to ...

Human violence in the Middle East has ... of the first cities beginning around 11,000 years ago. You may like 'Overkill' injuries on Bronze Age skeletons reveal fierce feuding in ancient China ...

The city originally founded around 4,300 years ... buildings to collapse," explained Eleanor Robson, professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London (UCL), who's been ...

The ancient city’s stunning Citadel, which dates as far back to the middle of the third millennium ... are inhumane,’ the poster adds Today, east Aleppo’s 250,000 residents are still trapped ...

“Dysentery is spread by faeces contaminating drinking water or food, and we suspected it could have been a big problem in early cities of the ancient ... The Middle East was the region of ...