Alice journeys through Jordan!Starting in the ancient city of Petra and exploring the stunning Wadi Rum desert and Bedouin culture. Alice visits the Dead Sea and religious landmarks tied to ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

Some Siren attachments, however, were created by Greek artisans who were inspired by those imported from the Near East (7). Although they are similar, Near Eastern and Greek sirens differ in many ways ...

In 2010, a team analyzed ancient DNA from 16 royal mummies, but the method they used wasn’t very good at distinguishing actual mummy DNA from modern DNA that might have contaminated it over the ...

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 ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...