On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that nearly 25 operatives of the Islamic State group were killed or captured ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Archaeologists from Germany have returned from northern Iraq without museum-ready artifacts but with rare insight into how ...

Once scarred by conflict and closed to visitors, several destinations around the world have transformed from battlefields into peaceful travel havens. These remarkable recoveries showcase the ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

New discoveries by a University of Central Florida researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and ...

Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir declined, an antiquities official said Saturday. The tombs, believed to be ...

Nomads came by Zagros Mountains in Babylon (Iraq). Illustration published 1838. This edition is in my private collection. Copyright is in public domain. Royalty-free ...

Taylor Swift's last album sparked bizarre accusations of Nazism. It was a coordinated attack What we can expect to see in Ghislaine Maxwell court documents ordered to be unsealed by a federal judge ...