William Dever, Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, has investigated the archeology of the ancient Near East for more than ... The victory stele of Pharaoh Merneptah, the son of ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were.

Such kitsch, Jennifer Awes Freeman notes, seems a far cry from the Babylonian stele, featured at the Louvre ... and church mosaics in a narrative span that ranges from ancient Akkadians in the Near ...

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A strange object with a "cheesy" smell turned out to be an ancient discovery, one of the largest of its kind in Ireland. Oftentimes, ancient discoveries come out of archaeological sites ...

Dr. Saana Svärd is director of the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires and leader of ANEE's Team 1. Svärd is Professor in ancient Near East studies at the University of Helsinki. She ...

To study the Near East in all its complexity is to gain insight into many of the forces that have shaped the Western world. From the history of Islam to the state of Israel, from the ancient Near East ...

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July 10, 2024 — A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early ...

Shatskaya, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Vera S. Kosterin, Oleg E. and Vasiliev, Gennadiy V. 2023. New Insights into Plastid and Mitochondria Evolution in Wild Peas (Pisum L ...

An ancient Greek grave stele shows a symbolic ... "This marble relief is a grave stele found in Athens near a seaside church." A viewer, who looks closely enough, will find a small box dangling ...