Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

Authorities have suspended water distribution in the district of Koya east of Erbil, after the detection of crude oil contamination in the Lesser Zab River, affecting over 100,000 people, local ...

Scores of Bodies Found in Tigris River; 19 Executed in Separate Killing Iraqi authorities pulled the bodies of more than 50 people believed to be Shiite hostages seized in the Madain region south ...

But allowing rivers room to move also delivers ecological benefits far beyond flood risk reduction. It supports biodiversity, improves water quality and stores carbon. As climate change ...

Climate science has correctly predicted many aspects of the climate system and its response to increased atmospheric carbon ...

Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier ...

A recent study conducted in southwest England has shed light on the connection between large-scale climate drivers and ...