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.

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses the Israel-Gaza conflict with David Hale. The veteran diplomat served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace as well as ambassador to Lebanon and Jordan.

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 ...

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 ...

There are 10 conflicts underway in the Middle East. Here's what you need to know NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Robin Wright, a contributing writer for The New Yorker, about the multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Another reason Middle Paleolithic evidence appears rare in East Asia is because what now seem to be less typical variations of the Quina tool kit previously found in China had been overlooked ...