A century ago, a few lone scholars began arguing a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots not in Greece and Rome, as academics had maintained for centuries, but further back—in the sun ...
More than 100 ancient Middle Eastern artifacts will be on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The gallery reopens on Dec. 18. The Cincinnati Art Museum opens its redesigned Middle East art gallery ...
A team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute has joined a team of Syrian colleagues in excavating a key site from the prehistoric society that formed the foundation of ...
A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread ...
From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...
MEXICO CITY, Feb 2 (Reuters Life!) - Fascinated by cultures as old as their own, Mexicans are pouring into museum exhibitions in wonder at ancient Middle Eastern artifacts never before seen in the ...
Thirty-one acres in extent, Tell Zeidan is situated where the Balikh River joins the Euphrates River in modern-day Syria. The location was at the crossroads of major trade routes across ancient ...
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Grand Egyptian Museum: challenges for world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization
Egypt was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on Saturday, the world’s largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization. World leaders, including monarchs, heads of states ...
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The Middle East – Where Nature Shapes Civilization
Beyond its history of conflict, the Middle East is a region of extraordinary natural contrasts. From the fertile banks of the ...
ON A rainy evening along the banks of the Tigris river soon after U.S. forces had entered Iraq and defeated Saddam Hussein’s army, I began to search for one of the U.S. soldiers—a sergeant—who ...
In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...
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