Ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick coming from the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, in the ancient city of Kalhu, reveals a time capsule of plant life
A team from Goethe University Frankfurt was searching for charcoal and found 4,300-year-old copper ingots, during a routine excavation in Oman
In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, a massive effort of genome-wide sequencing shows the lively genetic history of the Southern Arc region
In search of Natounia: archaeological investigations offer up new findings on the history of Parthian settlements in Iraqi Kurdistan
Drone technology leads to new discoveries at Girsu; at the British Museum the exhibition for the project, Ancient Iraq: new discoveries
Drought reveals a 3400-year-old urban center of the Mittani Empire, emerging from the Tigris River: archaeologists believe it can be Zakhiku
A new study reveals the features of the population that was buried in the necropolis of Tell es-Sin in Syria, a Byzantine archaeological site