The scholar Piotr Bienkowski studied archaeology at Liverpool University (BA and PhD) before he got involved in Jordanian Iron Age sites in 1980.The founding director of the British Institute at Amman ...

A lively exhibition at Hong Kong’s Palace Museum explores the culture of feasting — including a centuries-old predecessor to Deliveroo ...

Industrial pottery manufacture was developed in Jordan, southern Levant, Asia Minor, Tunisia and Sardinia. There are different preconditions for a pottery production on an industrial scale-enough clay ...

Many of us are advocates for much of what the West has brought to the world, but the portion of its foundations that are anti ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Archaeological data shed light on the transition of ancient North African populations from hunter-gatherers to producers, ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Terry Mattingly writes: hundreds of ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians, have been killed by Islamist militias in Syria.

As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their ...