To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

also brutalized historic sites scattered across a land central to many ancient Middle Eastern civilizations. The historic souks, caravansaries and mosques of Aleppo are largely in ruins.