The Forgotten Sands." In this thrilling installment of the famed series, join the Prince as he navigates treacherous landscapes and uncovers ancient secrets. Explore stunning environments and face ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

The Ancient Greeks may have had it better than we do in 2025. Imagine a world where leaders sought answers from a priestess instead of “experts.” From the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE, the ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

The dish known as salad is said to date back to the ancient Roman habit of dipping romaine lettuce ... Any way it’s served, a salad can speak volumes about a place. From Greece to Mexico to Ethiopia ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

An Iranian man holds up a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

In reality, not every eunuch in the ancient world was a servile, cloistered being. In fact, eunuchs sometimes led armies on campaign, and were entrusted with high-level administrative tasks.