The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what ...

Egypt on Saturday held a glittering ceremony attended by world leaders to mark the long-awaited full opening of the Grand ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an ...

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

Officials have described the vast facility that houses over 100,000 artifacts from across seven millenia of history as a gift ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...