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A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
A s the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about ...
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Jewish ritual bath discovered near Rome is the 'oldest discovery of its kind in the world'
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The Scientist8y
Study: Farming Arose Twice in the Ancient Middle East
The ancient genomic sequences, which were pulled from bones of the inner ear, indicated that the Levant farmers and the Zagros farmers likely mixed in eastern ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle2y
The Fertile Crescent, explained
A small but revolutionary group pursued a new idea: That civilization began in the ancient Middle East. In 1919, Breasted founded the Oriental Institute (OI), kicking off a century of archaeology and ...
Nature7d
Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa
Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.
The University of Chicago Chronicle2y
The Day Tomorrow Began - Ancient Civilizations
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 ...
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Beneath The Middle East, An Ancient Seabed Is Splitting From The Continental Plates
An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq ... Some of the most dramatic changes over recent times can be found along the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the largest rifts in the ...
National Geographic news1y
The first Europeans weren’t who you might think
Genetic tests of ancient settlers' remains show that Europe is a melting pot of bloodlines from Africa, the Middle East, and today's Russia. Three waves of immigrants settled prehistoric Europe.
Helsinki2y
Team 1 researchers
Dr. Jonathan Valk (Ph.D., New York University) is a historian of the ancient Middle East. He specializes in the history of Assyria in the first and second millennia BCE, a region at the intersection ...
Helsinki3y
Ancient Near East studies
Ancient Near East studies examines the history, languages and cultures of the Near East from the beginning of recorded history to the Roman times (approximately from 3000 BCE to 200 CE). Even though ...