Thonis-Heracleion once thrived at the mouth of the Nile, a vibrant city pulsing with trade and ceremony long before ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

The Nile Delta and most of Egypt north of Abydos were ruled at this time by the Hyksos—a foreign dynasty from the East—while most of the south was ruled by pharaohs from the ancient city of ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

Minecraft's 1.19 Wild Update introduced the Ancient City, a hidden structure within the Deep Dark biome, offering valuable loot but guarded by the Warden. Locating it requires descending below Y ...

Our ‘Carthage’ is an anglicisation of the Romans’ Carthago. What the Carthaginians themselves called their city was Qart Hadasht, ‘New Town’. Well, it was new in 814 BC (as New College, Oxford was new ...

The discovery, announced by Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry, was made within the ancient city of Tikal - an enormous city-state which battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for ...

But one ancient city in the country’s deep south often flies under the radar, despite being one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on Earth. The city in question is Matera, a UNESCO ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...

In the centre of Yemen, which boarders Saudi Arabia and Oman, the walled capital city of Shibam is famous ... previously said. But these ancient buildings skills are facing extinction, Salma ...