The histories they're piecing together are astonishing. Mohenjo-Daro was one of two prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. The citadel, a center of activity at the city's peak ...

Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE) was known as an innovative warrior and a benevolent king. He expanded the Achaemenid Dynasty to ...

The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Think of it as an architectural moussaka. At the bottom are remnants of the ancient city dating back to the fifth century BCE, tucked underneath Metro stations, clothes shops and residential ...

Rick Steves has traveled to Greece since he was a teen. One of his favorite islands near Mykonos features ancient temples, ...

Ancient mosaic in Turkey undergoes new conservation as experts work to preserve rare 5th-century artwork with optical ...

When we talk about ancient Greek colonies, many think of the spots across Europe, such as Syracuse in Italy, but which was ...

The Rosetta Stone is a slab of ancient stone that bears identical text inscribed in three different writing systems: ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert.

Eliyahu Yanai, City of David. According to excavation directors Dr. Yiftah Shalev and Dr. Marion Zindel of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Efrat Bocher of the Ancient Jerusalem Research Center ...