Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a mysterious Christian settlement in the Middle East dating back centuries. Dr ...

Archaeologists uncover remains of a Byzantine Christian settlement in Jordan, revealing artifacts and a basilica.

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, poetry slam and drag king competitions are in town, it’s ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

See blues legend Buddy Guy, celebrate Juneteenth at Boston’s art museums, and take in all the music Arlington has to offer.

One of the world’s largest art and design museums is offering the public a chance for visitors to see up close — and touch — historical and culturally significant pieces.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient Chinese artefacts known as the Zidanku Silk ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists ...

Yet it’s hard to see how renaming the institution the “Museum of the Ancient Near East” reflects its mission more accurately than the adjective “Semitic” did.