A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into the Earth. Understanding why could help predict future earthquakes.What you need to know. Tectonic changes are forcing ...

The Zagros mountains, in Western Iran, stretch for nearly 1,000 miles, from the sands of the Persian Gulf northwest along the modern border with Iraq and Turkey, separating the plains of ...

Genomes from people living in the area of Israel and Jordan, the so-called southern Levant region, showed distinct differences to those of people inhabiting the Zagros Mountains. “There has been a ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, a massive geological shift is unfolding. Scientists have detected that the Neotethys oceanic plate is tearing apart horizontally, altering the region’s ...

and Us U.S. airstrikes would likely not be able to reach an underground Iranian nuclear facility being built near the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, according to experts and satellite imagery ...

He has identified the world’s oldest known barley beer (from Iran’s Zagros Mountains, dating to 3400 B.C.), the oldest grape wine (also from the Zagros, circa 5400 B.C.) and the earliest known ...

The Arabian Plate is moving northeast (~1.5-2 cm/yr) and collides with Eurasia, forming the Zagros Mountains, and slides westward along the Dead Sea Transverse Fault (DST) past the African Plate.