Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the long-held belief that she was laid to rest there.

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in Jerusalem 2,300 years ago.

When he formally launched his political career in January, Carney said "this is no time for politics as usual." It remains to be seen how well that sense of the moment will survive contact with ...

Keeladi (Keezhadi), located just outside the more than 2,000-year-old great city of Madurai, has been accepted as a Sangam-era settlement. The Sangam period is widely believed to be the six ...

The society was a blend of Greek and Persian culture; culture merging was common for the Hellenistic period. Between approximately 70 and 36 B.C., Commagene’s most famous king, Antiochus I, ruled.

He lived from 551 B.C. to 479 B.C., during the Zhou dynasty and a period of great strife in ancient China. Confucianism teaches people to achieve perfection through kindness, ...

During the glacial period that chilled the Earth 140,000 years ago, sea levels in the Indonesian region of Sundaland were low enough for present-day islands to tower like mountain ranges with a ...

They focused first on fragmentary fossils of animals called Anatolepis, which date from the later part of the Cambrian Period, which ran from 539 million to 487 million years ago, and early in the ...

Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.