The world's oldest strategic board games have also been discovered in the current Near East region. Originally, these games were not just entertainment but were also used for divination and exploring ...

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 ...

It follows, then, that a known ware imported from some distant region and found associated ... who in a paper entitled "The Painted Pottery of the Near East in the Second Millenium B.C. and ...

Finnish research on the ancient Near East has a long tradition, and the region has captivated scholars and explorers for a long time. The history of the ancient Near East and over a hundred years of ...