An expert believes that he has rediscovered the lost Byzantine settlement of Tharais in southern Jordan. Archaeologist Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh spoke to Fox News Digital about his findings.

Mesopotamia was one of the cradles of civilization 6000 years ago, located in the fertile valley between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, it was the birthplace of current day society and the first ...

One of Jordan's best-known archaeological sites, only an hour's drive from Amman, the old Greco-Roman city is not to be ...

Senet holds the title as one of the oldest known board games. Its origins date back to around 3100 BCE in ancient Egypt. People played it on a grid of 30 squares, and the goal was to move pieces ...

In the Middle Bronze Age, the city was connected to Haran and Canaan by a major road. That Ur, long believed to be Abraham’s Ur, is about 1,000 miles from the city that Mallowan and Woolley ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to eth… ...

The map extends slightly beyond the Greater London boundary, allowing the inclusion of such real-world Hobbity places as Trotters Bottom ...

Recently, the British Museum showcased the Babylonian Map of the World in a video narrated by Irving Finkel, a philologist and curator in the museum's Middle East department.

From Ur to Gaza, peace, and dialogue With the church in Ur, “we wanted to remind everyone that Christians are originally from Iraq, so that they can return and discover their land, their past ...