the archaeologists discovered large portions of a monumental relief that depicts the ruler of the Assyrian empire from the seventh century BC along with two important deities and other figures.

Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty ... from the early 25th century BC until the mid-24th century ...

The Somali Peninsula was left without a major benefactor as the Ottoman Empire’s power waned in the 19th century ... young document. Egyptian chronicles speak about trade between the Somali Peninsula ...

19th-century depiction of Phoenician sailors and merchants. Publisher New York Ward, Lock Public Domain The ancient Greeks named the Phoenicians the “purple people” because of the rare purple dye they ...

These took place in the 4th century BC ... Battle of Eurymedon sometime around 469 to 466 BC. In the mid 480’s BC, the Egyptian Satrapy (area of Egypt ruled by a Satrap, a governor of the Persian ...

(WRIC) — Users can now view a new historic map of Goochland County, which provides people the chance to see county maps from as early as the 19th century, according to the Library of Virginia.

Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest ... Some 18th and 19th-century historians explained his victories as ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian ... century Europe. Historians know it as the Eastern Roman Empire ...

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Sculptures, are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures that were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens.