When you think about history, your mind jumps to sprawling cities like Rome or Cairo. But some of the most fascinating ...

United by unimaginable loss, Palestinians and Israelis are turning pain into purpose. Their grassroots movement of bereaved ...

The blind reveals that the sickness of the city flows from King Oedipus himself ... Some of these are even from the Muslim North. Ancient Romans would see this and intone: “Amicus meus, inimicus ...

On Sunday, Oct. 12, Beth El Phoenix filled with layered sounds of voice, instrument and insight for “Chamber in the Chapel: A ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful ...

Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...

The seal is thought to be from the same time period when Assyria conquered Judah and made it a vassal state required to pay ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

Called athenaeums, a Greek word meaning "temple of Athena," the concept predates the traditional public library.

Egypt on Saturday was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest museum dedicated to an ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the ...