An international team of researchers analyzed organic residues in ceramic trays used by Neolithic people in the Near East to ...

The institutions of their government, and the increasing threats – be they climatic, military, economic or political – gave ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

The Levant, encompassing modern-day Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, was a cultural crossroads during the Middle Paleolithic period. Both groups of hominins arrived at similar ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ...

GAZA STRIP - Dozens were killed or unaccounted for in Gaza on Thursday after Israeli strikes, on the day the International ...

It feels ironic that a nation which has historically instilled fear across the globe now finds itself fearing another. But ...

For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed ...

Lebanon marked its 81st Independence Day two days ago. However, the “celebrations” were cool, reserved, and almost apologetic; or rather, there was no celebration. Just one week earlier, mind you, the ...

The exhibition retells the stories of 50 refugees from 28 countries in collaboration with the U.K. for UNHCR and the U.N.

Pentagon insiders have issued a terrifying warning, claiming the world could be plunged into a brutal conflict with little ...