In this non-exhaustive list, Middle East Eye looks at five ancient empires from the region and their main contributions. Under their legendary founder, Sargon the Great, in the 24th century BCE ...

the Neolithic (12000 to 4500 B.C.), the Copper Age (4500 to 3,300 B.C.), the Bronze Age (3300 to 1200 B.C.) and the Iron Age (1200 to 400 B.C.). The ancient Middle East is an ideal place to look ...

As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding ...

also brutalized historic sites scattered across a land central to many ancient Middle Eastern civilizations. The historic souks, caravansaries and mosques of Aleppo are largely in ruins.

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

Well now you can! The Nixon Presidential Library & Museum will host “The Ancient World: Unlocking The Middle East” for the next year. The new exhibit, which features dozens of artifacts and ...

An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq ... Some of the most dramatic changes over recent times can be found along the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the largest rifts in the ...

"Therefore, the claims that an airburst event destroyed the Middle Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hammam appear to not be sufficiently supported by the data in the Article. Given these concerns ...