Creamy, aromatic, and steeped in centuries of history, this Middle Eastern classic is becoming the modern wellness drink ...

A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread ...

MEXICO CITY, Feb 2 (Reuters Life!) - Fascinated by cultures as old as their own, Mexicans are pouring into museum exhibitions in wonder at ancient Middle Eastern artifacts never before seen in the ...

Introductory -- Curating the ancient Middle East / Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit -- Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East : a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum / ...

Orthodox Christmas on January 7 brings together diverse communities across the Middle East and the global diaspora, ...

Global Guides tour at Penn Museum, Moumena Saradar showcases similarities between her grandfather’s family business and the artifacts from Tepe Gawra (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) ...

As the massacre in Gaza continues and good people around the globe are demanding an end to the US sponsored genocide, efforts to distract us ramp up. In Gaza, Israel is bombing homes and killing ...

The heart of occupied Nablus is one of the most ancient cities in the Middle East. With two churches, 12 mosques and a Samaritan synagogue around densely populated residential areas, the occupied West ...

Genomes from people living in the area of Israel and Jordan, the so-called southern Levant region, showed distinct differences to those of people inhabiting the Zagros Mountains. “There has been a ...

Stele of a Goddess, Limestone, from Petra, Jordan, 1st-2nd century CE (image courtesy of Department of Antiquities of Jordan) The weight of the past is always with us. William Faulkner, whose writing ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that redraws the map of the ancient world. His DNA captures a moment when people from ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Clarissa Bitar about their new album, Bakhaf al-Layl, and how they are leaning into vocals after a long time spent not liking the sound of their voice. And I'm Ailsa Chang ...