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 ...

The exhibition was carried out in collaboration with the Ancient Near Eastern Empires Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki, the National Museum of Finland, and the Museum of Central ...

The ancient Near East, a cradle of civilization ... Archery was integral to the military strategies of empires and tribes, leaving an indelible mark on culture, religion, and warfare.

The ancient studies program acknowledges the importance of approaching ... a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic cultures bordering on the Mediterranean Sea (including the Near East) from ...

Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...

An ancient gravesite near Stonehenge revealed an important man ... many leaders had vast empires with many disparate conquered people to rule, and possessing fine jewelry was not enough to get ...

It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late ... one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early ...