Around the globe, there are ancient sites shrouded in mystery,places where history, science, and myth intersect in baffling ...

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WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

Ancient Egypt was an influential kingdom in North Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians were ruled by a leader called a pharaoh and worshipped many different gods.

The pottery wheel from Mesopotamia first appeared in Egypt at about the time the man lived, a period when the earliest ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and ...

The Nixon Library will host “The Ancient World: Unlocking The Middle East” for the next year. The new exhibit features dozens of artifacts and interactive displays.

Amr Al-Azm, a professor of Middle Eastern history and anthropology at Shawnee State University in Ohio and a former antiquities official in Syria, said the country’s new authorities lacked the ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.