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TEHRAN-- New excavations at the ancient site of Chega Sofla in southeast of Khuzestan province have provided a new picture of ...

New research uncovers the origin of the wheel, revealing how ancient copper miners transformed simple rollers into advanced ...

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...

Eventually, Abu Mohammed and his family reached their breaking point. Water was vanishing on the outskirts of Baghdad, and ...

Archaeologists traced the invention of the lock and key back to Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE. The first wooden pin locks, later adopted in Egypt and Greece, reveal just how advanced early ...

This article discusses the opioid crisis and its evolution through time. If you or someone you know is struggling with ...

The narcotic first drew widespread attention in B.C. in the late 1990s, when a cheap yet potent strain known as China White ...

For centuries, the Garden of Eden has existed on the hazy border between myth and memory. Yet recent developments in ...

Modernity handed us skyscrapers but stole our villages. Industrialization drove efficiency but disrupted presence ...

Across the state, farmers, spinners, weavers and knitters strive to slow the runaway train called “fast fashion” as they produce natural plant and animal fibers.

In the high steppes of the Trialeti region, south of Georgia, archaeologist Boris A. Kuftin unearthed in the 1930s a series of burial mounds that revealed a sophisticated and wealthy culture, named ...