One lineage — Felis silvestris lybica, a subspecies of wildcat found in the Near East, including Anatolia — spread with humans into what is now the European countries of Bulgaria as early as ...

Farmers in the Near East were probably the first people to successfully tame wild cats about 9,000 years ago. Then, a few thousand years later, cats spread out of ancient Egypt along maritime ...

By Buthayna El Haggar The ancient Near East, a cradle of civilization, saw the bow evolve from a tool for hunting into a symbol of power, faith, and military prowess. Archery was integral to the ...

Glazed Brick Decoration in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of a Workshop at the 11th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Munich) in April 2018, 2020, pp. 48-84 ...

The Hunt for the Ancient ’Hobbit’s’ Modern Relatives. A group of pygmies still lives near the cave where the short-statured Homo floresiensis was discovered.

A mysterious example of ancient Greek graffiti may reveal the existence of a lost temple at the iconic Acropolis of Athens, a pair of researchers have proposed in a study.

POTTERY sherds, when they occur, are some of the most useful 'fossils' the prehistorian can have to deal with. When the are found with an industry, one can be almost certain that they are ...

Nineteenth century researchers compiled fragments of ancient tablets found at a site near Mosul, Iraq to translate the Gilgamesh story from Akkadian into English and other modern languages.

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Primary Menu Sections US News ...

Last year, while on a hike on Mount Carmel in Haifa, a 13-year-old boy found a Roman-era ring with an engraving of the goddess Minerva. In 2016, a 7-year-old boy on a trip with friends in the Beit ...