Maps of the ancient Near East that can be used for personal research, for classroom or lecture use, or for publication on your website can be found on the Internet, it just takes a little digging. The websites listed below are portals for what are in some cases decades of research by ...
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans. While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the commitment of the paleogenomics community to open data, formats for both raw data and
Publisher’s noteSpringer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. About this article Cite this article Baten, J., Benati, G. & Sołtysiak, A. Violence trends in the ancient Middle East between 12,000 and 400bce.Nat Hum Behav...
THE GEOGRAPHY OF JERUSALEM & ISRAEL The city of God was radically shaped by it's geography. Jerusalem sat atop the central ridge of the Western Mountains. The mountains around God's city were known as the Central Mountains, or Highlands. In the immediate area were the Judean Mountains. The ...
Feel the thrill of discovery as you race against time, deciphering cryptic maps and forging unlikely alliances. In this land of hidden perils and breathtaking vistas, your choices will shape the fate of Middle-earth. With courage as your compass, pursue cunning traitors through scorching deserts,...
Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Quatar, Yemen, and Israel are all countries of what we call the Middle East, and each has its own rich culture and breathtaking architectural wonders. One of the oldest surviving examples of Islamic architecture is the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem, a holy city...
The article explores the question whether there was a possible dialogue between ancient Greek and Mesopotamian chronography. This is an interesting albeit challenging subject due to the fragmentary preservation of the Greek texts. The idea that cuneiform
(Iran), the Parthians defeated Alexander the Great's successors, the Seleucids, conquered most of the Middle East and southwest Asia, controlled the Silk Road and built Parthia into an Eastern superpower. The Parthian empire revived the greatness of the Achaemenid empire and counterbalanced Rome'...
and new assessments of identifications have consistently illustrated errors in the early dates13,14. The earliest sites with well-identified chicken bones that appear in abundance are Tel Kedesh (last centuries BC2) and Maresha (4th–2nd centuries BC1), both in Israel (Fig.1). From contexts ...
Situated at over 5,000 meters above sea level in the Himalayan Mountains, Roopkund Lake is home to the scattered skeletal remains of several hundred individuals of unknown origin. We report genome-wide ancient DNA for 38 skeletons from Roopkund Lake, and