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Hamas’s attacks could be a daring single-day raid, or the start of a regional war of a scale not seen since 1973.Hatem Moussa /…

You write that the first goal of your book is to “reinsert climate back into the story of the past as an underlying, crucial,…

In a startling revelation, researchers have found that that kissing was practised by the people of the ancient Middle East…

The romantic kiss may have existed for 1,000 years longer than previously estimated, dating back to ancient…

Babylonian clay model showing a nude couple on a couch…

A new study by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and University of Oxford suggests that kissing has been a human…

Around forty-three hundred years ago, in a region that we now call Iraq, a sculptor chiselled into a white limestone disk the…

Cranial features of the cay008 toddler. Credit: Science…