A new report details the extensive damage to the ancient city of Palmyra following the end of the Assad regime. The report documents the destruction of key monuments like the Tetrapylon and the Temple ...

Fruit baskets -with fruit still inside- that are more than 2,200 years old were found in Heracleion, the ancient underwater city of Egypt.

Alexander the Great is said to have rejected a colossal Mount Athos project that could have been the eighth wonder of the ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

Since time immemorial, megaliths have fascinated archaeologists, historians, and travelers alike. These enormous stone ...

The city of Thônis-Heracleion was once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean Sea, controlling trade for centuries before ...

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

A man who had lodged a complaint about the stolen ancient idols from the Ram-Janaki temple in the Padri police station area of Mirzapur has turned out to be the thief, police said on Saturday.

Carved into the side of the mountains overlooking Fethiye are the incredible Lycian Rock Tombs where the Lycian people buried ...

The placement of ancient Greek temples was far from accidental, according to the fascinating theory of geodetic triangulation. This concept suggests that the location of these sacred sites was ...

Constructed in the style of funerary temples of the ancient Pharaonic state, it reflects the prominence of Ramses II. The temple includes depictions of the Battle of Kadesh, one of the most ...

Read on to discover the stories behind Egypt's greatest funerary monuments ... human remains and there’s no valley temple (a place where the royal mummy was received), which was a standard inclusion ...