Middle East
Extreme Drought may have created conditions for Islam to emerge
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Research suggests that drought may have been an instigator in the shift to Islam as a religious practice within the Arabian peninsula.
Bavaria
Release the Hounds: Archeology edition – August 2022
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We release the Hounds to round up some recent archeological finds from Türkiye, Egypt, and Germany!
Middle East
Mitanni City emerges from the Mosul Reservoir
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The initial finds of the excavations of the ancient Mitanni Empire city of Zakhiku that was revealed due to the drought in Iraq in 2021.
Asia
Impacts of Bronze Age volcanic eruptions
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The impact of the eruption of Thera in antiquity was likely a major factor in the demise of Minoan culture.
Anatolia
Assyrian deity carvings found in secret Turkish tunnel
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Archeologists have published an initial study of a carving found in southern-eastern Turkey that depicts a procession of deities in a mixture of Assyrian and Aramaic styles.