During my year aboard the Ocean Viking, we collected the harrowing stories of 110 people rescued by the ship in the central ...

During my year aboard the Ocean Viking, we collected the harrowing stories of 110 people rescued by the ship in the central ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

The sea looks the same. So does the sand. But in Egypt, two beach communities not far from each other have decidedly ...

One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the last 10,000 years took place at the Greek island of Thera (Santorini) in the ...

This episode retraces Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign through the lens of Google Earth, following the 1798 expedition that aimed ...

Erupting in AD 541–542 and returning for centuries, the Byzantine plague almost destroyed Justinian’s Byzantium.

Archaeologists identified the tomb owners by reading titles carved on walls and lintels. The names are Amun-em-Ipet from the ...

Buildings and structures too. We’re talking about giant stones carved with impossible precision, buildings aligned with the stars, and monuments so mysterious and scientifically significant that they ...

CAIRO (AP) — Israeli and Hamas officials launched indirect talks Monday at an Egyptian resort on a U.S.-drafted peace plan to end the ruinous war in Gaza on the eve of its second anniversary. Many ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Tourists ride in hot air balloons over the ancient city of Luxor, in Egypt. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Roughly 500 years ago in California's High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew. Half a millennia ...