Planning a vacation shouldn’t mean emptying your savings account. While Florida remains a popular choice for American ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

A site in Switzerland contained evidence of an administrative center that was part of a bigger plan to build a urban center ...

In Şanlıurfa, Turkey, sacred sites tied to Abraham draw Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrims, while prehistoric ruins and vibrant food culture anchor a city where faith and history converge.

Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, Meroë, and Jenne-Jeno were once centers of sophistication and wealth, but their fortunes waned over time. Although their ancient splendors disappeared from sight, ...

The ancient city of Dholavira, the southern centre of the Harappan Civilization, is sited on the arid island of Khadir in the State of Gujarat. Occupied between ca. 3000-1500 BCE, the archaeological ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.