the Neolithic (12000 to 4500 B.C.), the Copper Age (4500 to 3,300 B.C.), the Bronze Age (3300 to 1200 B.C.) and the Iron Age (1200 to 400 B.C.). The ancient Middle East is an ideal place to look ...

In this non-exhaustive list, Middle East Eye looks at five ancient empires from the region and their main contributions. Under their legendary founder, Sargon the Great, in the 24th century BCE ...

An ancient collection that was recently ... perhaps even more than they show us the situation of the Middle East at the time. The maps are indeed a unique window of how people thought of, dreamed ...

Well now you can! The Nixon Presidential Library & Museum will host “The Ancient World: Unlocking The Middle East” for the next year. The new exhibit, which features dozens of artifacts and ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...

The researchers from France and the Middle East say the newly discovered maps stand as the earliest to-scale depictions yet discovered. “Few plans or maps predate the period of the literate ...

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 ...