Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

If you are trying to travel beyond landscape and cuisine and looking to spend time with the ancient past, Pompeii stands apart as a place that can put you right inside the heart of the ancient ...

Damascus International Book Fair this year offers more than books, it tells the story of Syria’s enduring intellectual legacy. From ...

Archaeologists uncovered this astonishingly well-preserved Zapotec tomb in San Pablo Huitzo in central Oaxaca thanks to an ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

It is the most important archaeological discovery of the last decade in Mexico due to its level of preservation and the ...

A tomb belonging to a mysterious civilization has been discovered in Mexico, featuring imagery of death and power.

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

While its roots go back millennia, the foundation of modern-day Uttar Pradesh was laid in 1902 as the "United Provinces of ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...