It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the ...

On Purim, Jews celebrate a long-ago victory over hatred, but it's worth praying too for the frustration of some modern ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Seven historical monuments in Isfahan Province have been officially added to Iran’s National Heritage List, further cementing ...

Some of the world’s oldest roadways are only memories now—but many have been preserved as historic monuments or improved to ...

For Morocco’s Jews, the festival of Purim, beginning March 13, has contemporary resonance, illustrating the tenuous existence ...

In a new find under five historic homes in the Iranian city of Abarkuh, archaeologists discovered an underground settlement ...

The Parthian Battery or Baghdad Battery is one of the most fascinating inventions of the ancient world preceding the batteries we use today.

Hidden behind imposing brick walls in the heart of Tehran, a renovated industrial cellar where decades ago Iranian beer was ...

The study provided a clear picture of the well-planned ancient irrigation system that once flourished in the region.

A marble statue of Hermes along with statue fragments of ancient Greek deities have been unearthed during excavations at the ...