Damascus, Syria, continues to defy time, recognized as the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city. With over 11,000 years ...

From the blog of Sabine Sterk at The Times of Israel ...

This will truly be the golden ... city, experienced unparalleled abundance, peace, and religious revitalization, particularly while Augustus ruled. For free, wealthy, male citizens, the imperial world ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient ... Damascus on June 18, 1812. Heading south through what is now Jordan, he overheard people talking about a city ...

Three thousand four hundred years ago, a contentious ancient Egyptian king abandoned ... The find, which has been dubbed the “lost golden city of Luxor" in an announcement released today ...

identical to the southern steps that would have gone up to the temple in ancient times. Pilgrimage road. (credit: Koby Harati & City of David Archives) 2,000 years ago was the age of Herod ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

The mundane-looking objects revealed the story of when disaster struck an ancient Roman city, the reconstruction efforts and its lingering consequences. Archaeologists began excavating a canal in ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh ... In the late 1800s, British researchers explored the city’s North Palace, which was built during Ashurbanipal’s reign, between ...