Archaeologists in Peru have unveiled a 3,500-year-old city that served as a trading hub connecting cultures of the Pacific ...

The Zhetyasar Oasis, located in the East Aral Sea area and along the middle Syrdarya River in the Kyzylorda Region, contains ...

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Scholars at the OI laid the foundations for the modern study of the ancient Middle East, with the work assuming an extraordinary array of forms: innovative, field-defining excavations and research ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

He talks to Middle East Eye about the decline and fall of empires both ancient and modern Pandemonium, by the British painter John Martin, 1841 (Creative commons) By Oscar Rickett ...

The Cincinnati Art Museum opens its redesigned Middle East art gallery on Saturday. More than 100 artifacts will be displayed in the gallery. The centerpiece exhibit is a shrine that hasn't been ...

Famed for their massive palaces and sophisticated plumbing, the ancient Minoans have long been considered a Bronze Age offshoot of the ancient Egyptian or other Middle Eastern civilizations. But ...

But despite being in the middle of a desert, in ancient times, the area may have been home to an oasis with abundant vegetation—and even lakes. The site at Saruq el Hadid. Jan Kurzawa ...