Without the Nile, there would be no Egypt. Throughout history, it has been crucial for transport, irrigation and even ...

The vessels and coin hoards found by the reasearcher date from much later, around the late 3 rd to early 4 th century C.E.

The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York, is a whimsical example of a 19th-century, eight-sided mansion.

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...

After decades of anticipation and scholarly speculation, the elusive Zeus Temple in Limyra has finally been discovered in Turkey. This remarkable find ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

Discover the secret Roman engineering hiding in plain sight. We explore a perfectly preserved domed bath from an emperor's villa, now a quiet Italian church, and trace how a pagan temple in a Roman ...

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

Beyond the entrance of Rome's newest metro station under the Colosseum, there are display cases filled with hundreds of ...

A Roman treasure hoard melted in a fire 1,800 years ago has been found in Histria, revealing jewelry, coins, and the life of ...