When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Modern cat lovers can thank the farmers of ancient Anatolia in the Near East for ...

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.

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 ...

The Assyrians are well known for their vast ancient empire in the Middle East; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and Egypt.

The Edomites, an ancient kingdom derided in biblical texts as simple, have been underestimated for thousands of years, according to a new paper from a team of archaeologists. Far from simple tent ...

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.

A colorful mosaic recently found in the “Burnt Church” in Hippos near the Sea of Galilee appears to depict a miracle Jesus is said to have performed nearby – the feeding of the 5,000 ...

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 ...