This ancient city, once the capital of the Nabatean Kingdom ... Traversing through the ancient ruins of the Middle East is an exploration of history and culture. These sites are remnants of ...

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 Rub' al-Khali desert was thought to be an endless sea of sand, but one 1998 discovery has shed light on a 5,000-year-old ...

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 ...

Languages: English, Spanish An analysis of thousands of ancient skeletons ... the emergence of states and cities brought about increasing stresses on the Middle Eastern populations, but the ...