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

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 ...

For years, theories swirled about a “lost medieval town” buried under a grassy field in southern Norway. The legend attracted the attention of archaeologists, but early radar scans repeatedly found ...

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.

The director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East replies to Ruth Wisse.