To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

also brutalized historic sites scattered across a land central to many ancient Middle Eastern civilizations. The historic souks, caravansaries and mosques of Aleppo are largely in ruins.

The Game of Twenty Squares is a race game, originating in the Middle East and played from the 2nd millennium B.C. It was most popular in ancient Egypt, although its spread extended to places like ...

The original article was co-authored by research collaborators archaeologist Phil Silvia, geophysicist Allen West, geologist Ted Bunch and space physicist Malcolm LeCompte.

"Therefore, the claims that an airburst event destroyed the Middle Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hammam appear to not be sufficiently supported by the data in the Article. Given these concerns ...