In a bold reimagining of Southeast Asia s prehistory, scientists reveal that the Philippine island of Mindoro was a hub of ...

Vast amounts of organic carbon settle on the seafloor each year, coming from decaying marine life and from living (or once ...

New insights about the life of a middle-age man who lived some 5,000 years ago have given a vivid snapshot of northern Europe at the dawn of agriculture. Denmark's Jutland peninsula was cultivated ...

Doha appears to have found friends in two top South Carolina lawmakers whose home state houses a prominent Boeing plant about to produce a record-breaking order of passenger planes for ...

Other ancient calendars, dating to the Sumerians 5,000 years ago, simply divided the year into 12 months of 30 days each. Their 360-day year was nearly a week shorter than our annual journey ...

TEHRAN, May 25 : US President Donald Trump’s now aborted move to rename the Persian Gulf as the ‘Arabian Gulf’ or ‘Gulf of Arabia’ stirred sharp condemnation from Iranian officials, who saw it as a ...

While now a hyper-arid environment, the region experienced periods of increased humidity between 6,000 and 5,000 years ago, with increased rainfall resulting in shallow lakes which supported ...

As Imam Plemon El-Amin stood on stage at Morehouse College in front of hundreds of people, donning graduation regalia his uncle Dennis Hubert never got to wear, all he could think was that Hubert ...

While little is currently known about the people who lived there 5,000 years ago, the discovery is already transforming our understanding of early civilizations in the Arabian Peninsula.

Amira El-Fekki is a Newsweek reporter based in Dubai. Her focus is reporting on politics and society in the Middle East. She has in depth knowledge of Arab communities and has covered human rights ...

Lake Huron was still busy draining eastward out the Ottawa-St. Lawrence rivers until about just 5,000-6,000 years ago. And Lake Michigan continued draining out the Illinois River (site of present ...