Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

Ancient Near East studies examines the history, languages and cultures of the Near East from the beginning of recorded history to the Roman times (approximately from 3000 BCE to 200 CE). Even though ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

To study the Near East in all its complexity is to gain insight into many of the forces that have shaped the Western world. From the history of Islam to the state of Israel, from the ancient Near East ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

“Finely smoothed limestone blocks on a vertically cut rock façade could belong to a rock sanctuary,” Christian Leitz, professor at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Civilization at the ...