The Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday that an ancient shard bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great that was announced this week to much fanfare was “not authentic.”. In ...

Mythical ancient creatures carved in gold and linked together to form an otherworldly necklace; mismatched emerald studs that look endearingly off-canter, and a grinning Pegasus with old-mine-cut ...

An ancient shard bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great that was announced to have been found earlier this week is “not authentic,” Israel’s Antiquities Authority (IAA) said ...

The Persians, the ancient inhabitants of what is now Iran, created one of the ancient world's largest and most powerful empires that flourished from 550 B.C. to 330 B.C. At its height, the Persian ...

Darius I, Xerxes’ father, had re-excavated an ancient pharaonic canal in Egypt that linked the Red Sea with the Nile Delta. That canal had a maximum width of almost 150 feet at the surface and ...

Archeologists unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials along with a trove of jewelry near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said. Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Ministry ...