A large wildfire has broken out south of Athens, forcing evacuations and road closures near the ancient Temple of Poseidon ...

The school is jointly organised by the project Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW) and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE), and aims to provide students in ...

The Iron Age users of two ancient toilets in Jerusalem were not a healthy bunch, according to an analysis of poop samples from the 2,500-year-old latrines. CNN values your feedback 1.

Researchers led by Oxford's School of Archaeology sequenced DNA from more than 2,000 ancient pigs. They then looked at genomes from 63 archaeological pigs collected across the Near East and Europe ...

This Collection aims at examining the computational and digital study of “greater Western Asia” and its epistemological implications.

We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 44 ancient Near Easterners ranging in time between ~12,000 and 1,400 bc, from Natufian hunter–gatherers to Bronze Age farmers. We show that the earliest ...

DNA found at archaeological sites reveals that the origins of our domestic cat are in the Near East and ancient Egypt. Cats were domesticated by the first farmers some 10,000 years ago. They later ...