This ancient city, located 145 km from Moscow, is a year older than the capital. In the 16th century, it stood on the ...

Sifting through layers of dirt and debris, archaeologists in Turkey uncovered two flat, burnt artifacts. The delicate-looking ...

It’s all part of Türkiye’s promotion of its Aeneas Route of ancient sites. Colonizers from Lesbos first sailed over in the 7th century BC to found Assos. The city eventually hosted a Who’s ...

Sifting through the soil of southern Germany, archaeologists unearthed piles of charred remains and a worn-out stone. The mundane-looking finds turned out to be traces of a 2,800-year-old bakery.

New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Archaeologists excavated a ...

For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual. Rooted in ancient tribal traditions, theyyam predates ...

Each city had a temple in its centre called a Ziggurat. They were tall so that people could be closer to the gods in the sky. Image caption, A restored Ziggurat in the ancient city of Ur.

The 13th-century citadel, 12th-century Great Mosque and various 17th-century madrasas, palaces, caravanserais and hammams all form part of the city's cohesive, unique urban fabric, now threatened by ...

Central America stretches precariously thin. Looking at it on a map, the isthmus linking Mexico to Colombia tapers progressively as it reaches southward. At its end, it covers around 30 miles in width ...

The discovery of complex fish trapping networks from 4,000 years ago hint at how the Maya rose up as a civilization in ...

What was the Ancient Sumer civilisation? Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Learn about what life was like in this civilisation. When was Ancient Sumer?

A remarkably crafted head of the Greek goddess Tyche, dating back to the Roman era, has been unearthed in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, offering exciting new insights into the ancient city of Philippopolis ...