The 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey is often called the “zero point of history”, said The Archaeologist. But ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress.

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

Wall St. Insights The empire of Alexander the Great ruled from Egypt to India. The countries of that region still show some Greek influence in their art, architecture, languages, and other cultural ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of ...

This is the BBC at its most fundamentally BBC-ish — it is another instalment in its ongoing revival of the 1969 Kenneth Clark ...

Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site near El Paso offers exactly that kind of time-traveling adventure at a price that won’t make your credit card weep. This 860-acre natural wonderland sits just 32 ...

OP-ED. While major tech leaders claim to see Ancient Rome as a moral and political model, it is likely because the ...

Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...