People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago
Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
Archaeologists at Hyrcania in the Judean Desert, unearthed a rare Byzantine Greek inscription paraphrasing a verse from Psalm 86
Archaeometallurgists have been debating the exact origin of tin used in the Bronze Age for 150 years; a new study in Frontiers in Earth Science
Climate change may have impacted the rise and fall of Middle Eastern civilisations, according to an international study
New analysis of obsidian blades reveals dynamic Neolithic social networks; the study has been published on PNAS
In search of Natounia: archaeological investigations offer up new findings on the history of Parthian settlements in Iraqi Kurdistan
A unique rock carving (petroglyph) found in the Teymareh rock art site (Khomein county) in Central Iran with six limbs has been described as part man, part mantis