Middle East
After 30 Years, Looted Kushan Bull Sculpture Will Return to Afghanistan's Kabul Museum
The artifact is one of thousands left destroyed, damaged or missing after civil war broke out in the 1990s
This Demon, Immortalized in 2,700-Year-Old Assyrian Tablet, Was Thought to Cause Epilepsy
The damaged drawing was hidden on the back of a clay cuneiform tablet
Is This Chess Piece Unearthed in Jordan the World's Oldest?
The two-pronged rook, found in a seventh-century trading post, shows how quickly the game spread across the Islamic world
Turkey Is Moving Forward With Plans to Flood a 10,000-Year-Old City
Hasankeyf and nearly 200 other settlements will be inundated as part of a dam project
Hundreds of Artifacts Looted From Iraq and Afghanistan to Be Repatriated
The trove, currently stored at the British Museum for safekeeping, includes 4th-century Buddhist sculpture fragments and 154 Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets
Two Tour Guides—One Israeli, One Palestinian—Offer a New Way to See the Holy Land
With conflict raging again in Israel, a fearless initiative reveals a complex reality that few visitors ever experience
Ancient City of Babylon Among New Unesco World Heritage Sites
Other additions include ancient metallurgy sites in Burkina Faso, Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park and eight buildings designed by Frank LLoyd Wright
Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on the Biblical Philistines
A team of scientists sequenced genomes from people who lived in a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel between the 12th and 8th centuries B.C.
Fear of Foreign Food May Have Led to the Death of This Crusader King
A new analysis shows France's Louis IX and much of his army suffered from advanced scurvy during the Eighth Crusade in Tunisia
Rock Art and Footprints Reveal How Ancient Humans Responded to Volcanic Eruption
New study dates the preserved footprints to 4,700 years ago, a full 245,000 years later than previously suggested
Ancient Urine Reveals Timeline of Turkey’s Agricultural Revolution
Researchers studied urine salt deposits to map out the history of animal domestication at Turkey's Aşıklı Höyük settlement
A Small Fire Broke Out at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque as Flames Ravaged Notre-Dame
The blaze left the Islamic holy site largely untouched, damaging a single mobile guard booth
U-2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Archaeological Sites in the Middle East
Two patient archaeologists organized and scanned the images to find structures destroyed or covered up over the last 60 years
The Library of Congress Has Digitized 155 Persian Texts Dating Back to the 13th Century
Offerings include a book of poetry featuring the epic <em>Shahnameh</em> and a biography of Shah Jahan, the emperor who built the Taj Mahal
A Medieval Arabic Medical Text Was Translated Into Irish, Discovery Shows
Ibn Sīnā's <i>Canon of Medicine</i> was once a core part of the European medical curriculum
Why Is the Genie in ‘Aladdin’ Blue?
There’s a simple answer and a colonialist legacy for why the genie looks the way it does
The Complex Legacy of America's Lawrence of Arabia
Archaeologist Wendell Phillips traveled throughout Yemen in the 1950s, where he found ancient treasures and controversy
The History of Poisoning the Well
From ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day Iraq, the threat to a region's water supply is the cruelest cut of all
Humans and Dogs May Have Hunted Together in Prehistoric Jordan
Bones at a settlement called Shubayqa 6 show clear signs of having been digested—but were much too large to have been eaten by humans
From Lady Liberty to Hollywood to the Middle East, These Are the Most Exciting Museums Opening in 2019
Visit new institutions devoted to mascots, spies, archaeological sites, American icons and much more this year
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