A study by Ali Vahdati and his colleagues, Raffaele Biscone, Roberto Dan, and Marie-Claude Trémouille analyzed the remains ...

Ancient artefacts unearthed from a Bronze Age city in modern-day Iraq could help shed light on the history of Mesopotamia. The objects date to about 1800 BCE and include a game board, large structural ...

A Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full of 'Princes', But No Palaces. ... Mesopotamia—the starting point for the agricultural villages that would grow in size and complexity until some 5,000 years ago.

The Bronze Age cultures of the Near East were based in six geographical areas: Egypt, the Levant/Syria-Palestine, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Eastern Mediterranean. The cultures and kingdoms of ...

A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints that Bronze Age people in this region were slow to urbanize, unlike their contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia, a new ...

A 60-foot-long reproduction of a Bronze Age boat—of a type that was in use more than 4,000 years ago—has successfully set sail. The replica vessel departed from the coast of Abu Dhabi, the ...

3D virtual reconstruction of the Bronze Age site of al-Natah. Reprinted under a CC BY license, with permission from AFALULA-RCU-CNRS, 2024. Settlements in northern Arabia were in a transitional ...