Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Special Issue: Kurdish Diaspora (August 2019), pp. 68-82 (15 pages) Members and leaders of the Kurdish speaking Yezidi diaspora in Phoenix, ...

Reconstruction of mural depicting ritual performance from Teleilat el Ghassul (Jordan), 5th to 4th millennium bce. Painted by Henry J. Soulen. National Geographic Magazine (published December 1957).

The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia. Examples of the cuneiform tablets found, and an aerial view of Fayadia District, Iraq. Photo: Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and ...

Rabbi Brous is the founding and senior rabbi of Ikar, a Jewish community based in Los Angeles, and the author of “The Amen Effect.” A somewhat obscure text, about 2,000 years old, has been my unlikely ...