Two neighboring towns on the Arizona-Utah border that once served as a haven for a polygamous religious sect have entered a new era.

The long-anticipated agreement closes a period of intense uncertainty in northeastern Syria after rebel forces led by Ahmed ...

SHARJAH, 29th January, 2026 (WAM) -- The archaeological discoveries in Sharjah, particularly at Mleiha, provide compelling ...

A meal at a meat-and-three is nonnegotiable. Order crisp fried chicken, mac and cheese, cornbread, and pork-braised ...

Research shows the Ishtar Temple at Assur was built on imported sand, revealing early ritual practices and the timeline of ...

An international team of archaeologists and geologists has discovered beneath the foundations of the Ishtar Temple in Assur ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

The Kurdish people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without their own country. Many are native to the region where four countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey — meet and share ...

All societies rely on rules, whether written laws or unwritten customs, to maintain order and protect people from harm. Since […] ...

In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to ...

The Kurds are a group of people who are indigenous to the Mesopotamian plains and nearby highlands which, today, stretch across southeastern Turkiye, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, northwestern ...