Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

One person died after a shooting on Columbus' Near East Side, police said. At 10:29 p.m., officers responded to the 900 block ...

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 ...