A monumental Roman complex has been revealed in Athens, and the city is gaining another open-air archaeological site in its ...

Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul by Atatürk’s government, capping a campaign begun in 1916 by Enver Pasha that ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

A new analysis of hundreds of obsidian artifacts from the Aztec Empire has revealed the vast trade networks that supplied ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of Byzantium?

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV with “Christian hope,” expressing optimism for renewed ...

There’s something extraordinary about walking the same streets where ancient philosophers debated, kings and queens ruled, ...