Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once filled the landscape between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian interior.

The location of the discovery implies that the amulet traveled over a whopping 1,000 miles, likely via trade.

Irrigation was used to maintain viticulture under changing climatic conditions, suggesting that ancient farmers took full account of the varying requirements of their crops through sophisticated ...

Bronze Age pottery unearthed in northwest China has revealed the secret to making red rice wine that was ceremonially consumed in the region in the second millennium BC. Previous research has ...

Until 20 years ago, little was known about the Bronze Age culture of the Hejaz, a mountainous region that abuts the Red Sea in western Saudi Arabia. Archaeological evidence was scant and the traces on ...

One of the most tangible examples is the survival of large ceramic bathtubs associated with Hittite-period contexts. A photographed terracotta tub from Kültepe (Old-Hittite, 19th or 18th century BC) ...

Scanning electron microscopic (SEM)-image of transverse section of an olive charcoal sample dating to around 1900 BC from Tell Mozan (NE Syria). Farmers in the Middle East were more committed to wine ...

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