In the Near East, temples and royal palaces served as centers of scientific activity thousands of years before the common era. Within extensive networks of scholars, texts and knowledge crossed ...

professor at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Civilization at the University of Tübingen, said in a statement. Excavations in the northern tower at the entrance of the temple district have ...

While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and ...

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 ...

Ancient people built temples all across the ancient world and dedicated them to a plethora of deities. While some of these structures haven't survived the test of time, some still exist today and ...

WORK-IT will harness eight types of evidence for temple institutions—building, gifts, taxes, tithes, produce, welfare, priesthoods, and dependents—using sources from the Southern Levant, the Persian ...

In the ancient city of Kunming stand two ancient pagodas, one in the east and the other in the west. West Pagoda used to be located in the now nonexistent Huiguang Temple. The temple used to be ...