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

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Join a peaceful walk through Mdina’s stone alleys, grand gates, and noble buildings. This tour takes you deep into one of ...

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

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

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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 ...

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

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

After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will ...

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