Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

Alexander the Great famously founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BCE. It went on to be the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian town ... the settlement is the earliest known Egyptian habitation north of Lake Mariout. The city reveals unprecedented clues about life during the ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian settlement likely built by Tutankhamun's father around 3,400 years ago in a huge ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance ... Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient worshippers a mere hint of the resplendent painted ...

Through radar scans and artifact finds, archaeologists identified the mystery ruins of Gradishte as a forgotten ancient city. Photo from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Under a ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

A team of scientists from Egypt’s ... which in ancient times was often fatal, researchers now believe this double blow is what led to his death. The study also helped map out Tutankhamun ...