I arrived in Oman on my 28th birthday, and let me tell you.... digging barefoot on the beach was definitely the perfect way to celebrate. R'as al Jinz is located on a sea turtle reserve, and is home ...

Human violence in the Middle East has ebbed and flowed since 12000 B.C., with spikes in the Copper and Iron ages and a lull in the Bronze Age, new research finds.

Cuneiform tablets, a system of writing developed in the Middle East, found in Ebla, Syria, suggest that during the third millennium — some 5,000 years ago — Nagar was one of the dominant ...

Despite the outcome of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, in which Israeli occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including the Old City and the Temple Mount, the enclosure and the Dome of the Rock, the ...

Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa began hand-in-hand with colonial invasions and occupations of the regions by Western European countries. The foundation of methods of research and ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

The edited volume "Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East" has been published. The book, published by HUP, is edited by former and current members of the Centre of Excellence in ...

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In 2018, he received the Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award for his transformative fieldwork in historic Islamic archaeology. “Like other fields that grew in the Oriental Institute ...

Uplands Archaeology in the East Symposium (8th : 2000) Notes "The most recent Uplands Symposium, Number IX, was held at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, February 6-8, 2004 ...

A stock image shows a skull and other human remains. An analysis of thousands of ancient skeletons offers new information about the history of violence in the Middle East millennia ago.