The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

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 ...

For decades, a scattering of ruins in southeastern Europe was dismissed as little more than an unremarkable military outpost, ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

In the centre of Yemen, which boarders Saudi Arabia and Oman, the walled capital city of Shibam is famous ... previously said. But these ancient buildings skills are facing extinction, Salma ...

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A newly completed excavation at an ancient gymnasium in Agrigento, Sicily, the modern name for the ancient Greek city of Akragas (Greek: Ἀκράγας), has revealed new finds: a rare roofed auditorium, a ...

Some commuters in a cosmopolitan European city may be shocked to learn they've been walking over ancient skeletons for many years. Officials in Brussels, Belgium, announced on April 9 that public ...