Alexandria overshadowed Pergamon, yet the Anatolian library rivaled Egypt in scrolls, scholarship, and parchment, shaping the ...

Echoes of Knowledge Through Time The story of the oldest libraries begins in places where clay tablets and scrolls carried wisdom across centuries. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh guarded ...

It was one of the world’s great cradles of civilisation and the largest excavated archaeological site on Earth. But few ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the most astonishing finds in history: the Library of Ashurbanipal, the great ...

The Ptolemaic city of Canopus was once an ancient sin city, but today, it's a lost city beneath the waves of the Mediterranean.

In Iraq, people have been struggling to cope with one of the worst droughts on record. Water levels in the vital Tigris River have dropped significantly, and parts of the country are facing a severe ...

Remnants of a 2,000-year-old sunken city, Canopus, were lifted from waters off Alexandria, Egypt, revealing the city might have been larger than thought. By Jenny Gross Remnants of an ancient, sunken ...

Ancient artifacts dating back to a sunken city from more than 2,000 years ago were pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, according to Egyptian officials. The historic treasures — which ...

Ancient artifacts from a more than 2000-year-old city were lifted from the sea off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt, confirming that the site was once a complete city. The pieces, including statues ...

The remains of a sunken city were pulled from the waters at Abu Qir bay in Alexandria on August 21, 2025. (photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on ...

Ruins of an ancient Incan site in present-day Argentina, sit beneath snow-capped Andean mountains, along highway 7, about an hour from the Chilean border, in October 2024. Photo by Michael Fox Get ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...