Each year, the thick, porridge-like soup is made in a large, communal pot with sometimes dozens of cooks taking part in the process to crush and stir the cream-colored wheat.

The remaining 20% of their lineage connects to populations from West Asia, including regions such as Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, parts of Syria, and Iran. This blend of North African and West Asian ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the pyramids were first constructed.

The bust follows a yearlong operation by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General into what authorities term a case of “modern-day slavery.” ...

Investigating rumored FEMA map of potential nuclear targets in the US The map dates to 2002 and illustrates hypothetical Russian nuclear attacks on the U.S.

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

US military official says no US bases in Iraq were targeted but that a malfunctioning Iranian missile aimed at Israel triggered an alert in Iraq earlier in the day. (CORRECTS: A previous ...

The risk of a spiraling conflagration that pulls the U.S. in deeper flies in the face of Trump’s own rhetoric about righting the wrongs of an earlier era of U.S. overreach.

The land of Persis, or Persia, in modern-day Iran There is an area in modern-day Iran, the Fars Province, sometimes written as “Pars.” This province occupies most of the immediate region on the ...

At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic.