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After decades of being shut out of one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the world, teams of archaeologists have poured back into Iraq's Kurdistan. But it could be a short-lived revival.

Research shows skin color was determined by natural selection in East Asia after human populations split from Europeans around 40,000 years ago, then carried over to America by ancient migrations of Native Americans.

What do archaeologists know about the overlooked centuries of Persian rule at the biblical site of Bethsaida?

Remains of walls, barracks and artifacts testify to a major 2nd-3rd century CE Roman military presence near ancient Megiddo, Israel.

Well before the recent media reports about the amazing discoveries of ancient Maya remains in Guatemala using laser technology, another team of pioneering scientists had already made equivalent discoveries in Belize.