Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that ... into the OI Museum through the wall of the gallery as it was being built ...

King Esarhaddon ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BCE. He was the third ruler of the Sargonid Dynasty, the ...

Southern wall of the Temple Mount ... surge of ivory carvings and exotic goods once the city became a prosperous Assyrian vassal. The archaeological record of ninth-century BCE Jerusalem reveals ...

In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions ... Text by Leon McCarron Children stand on the surrounding wall at Tabira Gate, the entrance to Assur, first capital of the Assyrian ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

From Mecca to Jerusalem: The Rising Wave of Muslims Following Jesus—and Loving Israel ...

When the Foundation Stone sees the Kaab’a approaching, it shall cry out, “Peace be to the great guest”. (Zev Vilnay, Legends of Jerusalem) The Muslim Kaab’a in Mecca was a very ancient ruined holy ...

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly supplying First Temple in Jerusalem ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

Maria Abi-Habib was a roving Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, focused on terrorism issues and jihadist groups such as al Qaeda and Islamic State. She had been based in Beirut and ...