Cyrene was one of the wealthiest Greek cities in the ancient Mediterranean, built on a plateau some 9 km (about 6 miles) ...
In the small village of Qesarat, in southern Albania's Tepelenë district, an Italian-Albanian excavation team has just ...
Picture ancient Egypt's funerary cult and the mind jumps to the dead themselves: the offerings, the gods, the pageantry. Easy to forget are the people who actually carried the bread, beer, and incense ...
Archaeologists digging beside Notre-Dame have uncovered a fire-scarred wall of stone and timber that may belong to the Gaulish town Julius Caesar wrote about. The dating is still unconfirmed. Nobody ...
A newly excavated Etruscan tomb near Rome has survived nearly a century of looting almost intact — and may hold the key to relocating a lost 19th-century treasure now scattered across the British ...
Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods.
For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated central ...
In April 2009, newspapers around the world ran a headline that read like a cocktail menu: the center of the galaxy tastes of ...
India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units ...
A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey's southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in ...
In the spring of 2019, workers dredging gravel at Deinham, a site on the Danube in Upper Austria, kept snagging strange double-pointed iron objects in the excavator's bucket. Instead of tossing them ...
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