Some 9,000 years ago, the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, one of the worlds first large farming communities, were among the first humans to experience some of the dangers of modern urban life. Scientists studying the ruins of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, found that its inhabitants - between 3,500
Saving ancient heritage is no mean feat in the Middle East. Geopolitical context, traffic, destruction of heritage and climate change pose major challenges to archaeologists. When the opportunity arises to carry out an excavation, it is therefore necessary to know how to seize it. As did a German-Ku
Following looting by Daesh, Iraqi archaeologists are said to have discovered an Assyrian palace under the Jonah shrine in Mosul, Iraq. Inspection of the destruction of the tomb of Jonas, destroyed by Daesh, in Mosul, the former Nineveh (Iraq). It is under these ruins that tunnels were discovered l
Although there is a certain common tendency to think of the Neolithic -the last stage of the Stone Age- as a unitary period, the appearance of agriculture and livestock allowed sedentarization and with it the birth of the first agrarian societies, so that inevitably there had to be considerable dive