An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian ...

A new tourist complex invites guests to stay in 12 boutique apartments above the site said to have been King David's Palace.

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar eclipse record known to ...

Sobering images of buildings, bridges and monuments damaged or destroyed in wars and conflicts throughout history. While some ...

Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

Israel’s occupation regime is set to expropriate 1,800 dunums (about 450 acres) of privately owned land in the northern West ...

Leo will pray with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, at the site of the ...

The Vikings weren’t a unified people, and Scandinavia was peppered with small, warring states ruled by kings, jarls, and ...

We've rounded up and ranked the most powerful and influential empires in history, from the globe-spanning dominions of ...