Imagine standing atop a rugged mountain range, gazing at an ancient landscape that whispers stories older than any nation.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

On Major Economic Decisions, Trump Blinks, and Then Blinks Again President Trump has said his tariffs would force companies to build factories in the U.S. It’s far from clear that they will have ...

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