Iraq wants to open up ancient trade routes to create a new "Silk Road" of highways, railways and ports linking the Gulf to Europe to rival the Suez Canal as a trade route.

Nestled between Shammar Mountains to the north and Salma Mountains to the south, the city of Hail was once the capital of the ...

In Iraq, the date palm and its bounty are national icons, but they are being battered by drought, as farmers do their best to ...

As part of the celebration of 125 years of bilateral relations between Britain and Kuwait, Dr. Paul Collins, museum scholar ...

The smaller geoglyphs were along ancient winding trails likely made throughout the desert by Nazca people viewing the symbols in small groups, according to the study. The bigger Nazca symbols were ...

“The fossil pollen, spores, and wood presented in this study paint a much different picture of the ancient environment, providing direct evidence of the presence of cool, wet forests.

The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting. One of the great ...

The genetic profile of the Xiaohe goat was similar to that of goats belonging to ancient Eurasian steppe people, meaning the Xiaohe may have learned animal husbandry and cheese-making from them.

Think of it as an architectural moussaka. At the bottom are remnants of the ancient city dating back to the fifth century BCE, tucked underneath Metro stations, clothes shops and residential ...