An ancient Maya structure was likely built around communal astronomical observations, but the identity of a mysterious woman ...

Once placed in tombs to serve the dead in the afterlife, Egyptian shabtis are getting a new kind of immortality, thanks to ...

Sheikh Hasina's consistent use of Jamdani in high-level diplomatic settings has been widely described as "Jamdani diplomacy" ...

In the poem, Ibn al‑Wardi imagines the plague as a wandering trickster who drifts from one region to another, spreading death ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

Scientists have made a huge breakthrough in understanding one of Egypt's most famous pyramids, by discovering 'an important ...

Officials say thieves have broken into Syria's national museum in Damascus and stolen several ancient statues from the Roman ...

The site's name, Patlachique, may derive from patla-achiuhcan, meaning "the place where exchanges are made to produce water," based on analysis of the glyph in the 16th-century Codex Vergara. This ...

A new interactive map reveals the Roman road network, linking Ancient Greece with the empire and shaping trade, travel, and ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...