Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. Researchers found Yersinia pestis, ...

The legendary Egyptian metropolises of Pithom and Piramesses were first noted in the Exodus story of the Old Testament. One of the foundations of the Jewish religion, it told of the plight of the ...

In the ancient Near East, archery became the predominant means of launching sharp projectiles, replacing spear-throwing. The history of archery, however, may have originated further down south during ...