New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the ...

An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

No matter how brutal they become, Israel's far-right agitators cannot erase what history, geography and faith have forged ...

According to legend, this earthen architecture city owes its existence to a magic worm. In the epic poem, Shahnameh, by Persian poet Ferdowsi, a girl was spinning cotton when she discovered a worm ...

One tomb belonged to Amum-em-Ipet, who lived during the Ramesside period (as the 19th and 20th Dynasties, the last two of the ...