Ancient human figurines have been found ... and their ruins are the major tourist venue in this West Bank city established perhaps 11,000 years ago, among the oldest inhabited sites in the ...

The discovery of a vast underground structure below the Khafre pyramid was first claimed in March, but it received fierce ...

Today in the history of astronomy, an eclipse record helps illuminate the timeline of the ancient world.

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation's "once-feared security apparatus" have sparked a "gold rush" of looters, robbing 2000-year-old graves for ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their ...