An international team of researchers has used innovative ecological modeling techniques to identify, for the first time, the possible geographical areas where Neanderthals and anatomically modern ...

Researchers report early evidence of goat domestication in Iran's Zagros Mountains. The initial domestication of several species, including goats, occurred in the Fertile Crescent during the Aceramic ...

Zagros Mountains forest steppe ecoregion with an area of about 6 million hectares (3.5 percent of Iran) is located primarily in Iran, ranging northwest to southeast and roughly paralleling the country ...

Titled “Investigations on Origins of Human Life in the Zagros Mountains”, the event will also explore archaeological genetics, importance and advantage of anthropology studies, structural geology, and ...

It is becoming a habit in Iraq that as soon as a new revolutionary regime has knocked off its predecessor, it then makes peace overtures to the rebellious Kurdish tribesmen holed up in the Zag ros ...

A mysterious ancient fort may have been found in northern Iraq, having been known before only because of a handful of ancient coins. Archaeologist Michael Brown of Germany's Heidelberg University and ...