Ancient Nubian tattoos on children reshape ideas about belief, care, and the body. Along the Nile, in what is now Sudan, ...

The idea of ancient civilisations pioneering orthodontics is irresistible, but archaeology shows their gold dental work ...

Medieval legend claims that an Irish race called the Fir Bolg originated from Greece. What does evidence reveal about this ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that nearly 25 operatives of the Islamic State group were killed or captured ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A newly documented Christian complex in Northern Iraq is forcing historians to rethink how faith communities shared sacred ground in late antiquity. The 1,500-year-old church, uncovered beside a ...

Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, ...

Karl Rove served as senior advisor to the president and White House deputy chief of staff from 2005 to 2007. Rove entered the Bush administration in 2001 after helping manage Bush's successful 2000 ...

A US Army specialist looks on after a casing of the colours ceremony at Camp Adder near Nasiriyah, Iraq. File Image/AFP The United States officially declared an end to the War in Iraq on December 15, ...

After more than two decades working alongside Iraq through war, political upheaval and the fight against ISIL terrorists, the UN Assistance Mission there (UNAMI) ends its mandate on 31 December – a ...