On 28 September 2026, Turkey's Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced on X the recovery of ...

A newly excavated Etruscan tomb near Rome has survived nearly a century of looting almost intact — and may hold the key to relocating a lost 19th-century treasure now scattered across the British ...

A study argues that copper and lead mined in Bronze Age Sardinia traveled as far as Scotland, Poland and Scandinavia — nearly 1,240 miles from where they were smelted — while the island's pottery ...

The newly identified fragment of the treaty of Kadesh. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture A newly identified clay fragment unearthed at Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in central ...

Cyrene was one of the wealthiest Greek cities in the ancient Mediterranean, built on a plateau some 9 km (about 6 miles) ...

In the small village of Qesarat, in southern Albania's Tepelenë district, an Italian-Albanian excavation team has just ...

Picture ancient Egypt's funerary cult and the mind jumps to the dead themselves: the offerings, the gods, the pageantry. Easy to forget are the people who actually carried the bread, beer, and incense ...

Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods.

In April 2009, newspapers around the world ran a headline that read like a cocktail menu: the center of the galaxy tastes of ...

Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what ...

For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated central ...

India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units ...