More than a decade ago, archaeologists began to excavate one of the world’s oldest Christian churches in the middle of a ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

Credit: Mattpopovich / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons The division of people into various social classes is a persistent feature across civilizations and was no less the case in ancient Greece where social ...

Nor was China, the alleged terminus of the Silk Roads in most versions of its conception, ever the main destination of ...

Night - Cloudy with a 40% chance of precipitation. Winds from W to WNW. The overnight low will be 78 °F (25.6 °C). Cloudy with a high of 94 °F (34.4 °C) and a 21% chance of precipitation ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Before the country was Thailand, it was Siam, and Ayutthaya was one of its ancient capital cities. Only around an hour by train from Bangkok, Ayutthaya is a UNESCO World Heritage sight and an ...