George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

script in which most of the ancient Mesopotamian texts were written. With few established protocols, Assyriology constituted a rare chink in the armor of the British class structure. An inquiring ...

Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared musical tradition connected ...

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

Rolling grasslands stretched across the peninsula, dotted with lakes and wetlands where herds of elephants, gazelles, and ...

Arabia today might be as dry as it’s ever been, but this is only the latest chapter in a long and dynamic climatic history. Bibi, F., Kraatz, B., Beech, M. J. & Hill, A. Sands of Time ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near ...

Ancient humid periods made Arabia a lush pathway for animals and early humans Researchers analyeed 22 speleothems — mineral formations that develop in caves — from seven systems in the Duhool ...