Shalev said the maps teach us a lot about the trends in Europe in the 16th century, perhaps even more than they show us the situation of the Middle East at the time. The maps are indeed a unique ...

The results suggest that interpersonal violence in the pre-Classical Middle East reached a maximum between 4,500 and 3,300 B.C. during the Chalcolithic period.

Despite their dramatic appearance, desert kites are commonplace in the Middle East, Caucasia and Central Asia, where researchers have identified 6,255. Engravings of Ancient Hunting Traps In Jordan, ...

Human violence in the Middle East has ebbed and flowed since 12000 B.C., with spikes in the Copper and Iron ages and a lull in the Bronze Age, new research finds.

During the New Kingdom (c. 1570- c. 1069 BCE), the Ancient Egyptians, driven by their vast wealth and military organisation, established an empire that not only stretched south into Sudan but also ...