Below, in vague chronological order, are a few of my favorites.

The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new ...

In a heart-warming book tinged with melancholy, Sofia-based American Rory Miller explores the joys and sorrows of Bulgarian ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The papyrus of Senemnetjer is among the earliest known examples of this funerary text, which was used to guide the soul of ...

Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art / CC0 1.0 An ancient book about the lives of Roman emperors has reached the Sunday Times Hardback Non-Fiction Bestseller List, marking a rare literary achievement ...

Something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea… a third of the living creatures in the sea died,' the ancient text reads. The Book of Revelation (written towards the end of ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your March reading list. Winds of change show up this month. One author considers why our brains ...