"'The World between Empires' presents a new perspective on the art and culture of the Middle East in the years 100 B.C.-A.D. 250, a time marked by the struggle for control by the Roman and Parthian ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

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 ...

Volume 1. From the beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the dynasty of Akkad -- Volume 2. From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon -- Volume 3. From the Hyksos to the Late Second ...

Archaeological excavations in Turkey that began in 2004 have yielded a unique historical treasure — 37 shipwrecks from the Byzantine Empire, eight of which are now described in a new report. The ...

An analysis of thousands of ancient skeletons has revealed intriguing details about the history of violence millennia ago, specifically in the Middle East. A study published in the journal Nature ...

Archaeologists discovered a royal seal from the ancient Hittite Empire that warns of death if a contract is broken. Contracts during this time often had consequences if broken, but death as a penalty ...

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 ...