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 ...

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.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Wednesday congratulated the arrival of the New Year (Nowruz) to his counterparts in Islamic countries.

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

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

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 ...

Forced into sexual slavery at age 11, Mayada was sold seven times before she escaped ISIS. There are still 2,600 other women and girls missing in captivity today and their families want justice.

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

In the chaos, journalists have struggled to confirm statistics about fatalities, while waves of social media videos claim to show crucified Christians, Alawites and other members of religious and ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...