The 1,700-year-old wooden supports tell the story.

Switzerland is making a significant move in the process of correcting the wrongs of colonial history with the return of eighteen of the looted Benin Bronzes. The ceremony for the transfer of the ...

Tyre, an ancient city on Lebanon's coast, is trying to recover after weeks of Israeli airstrikes. A new ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is in effect, but past ceasefires have failed.

Underwater archaeologists just recovered a wealth of relics from an ancient Roman shipping vessel at the bottom of ...

The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist group that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent, ...

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DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were ...

After nearly seven decades of excavation, the legendary ancient city of Sardis has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ...

Scientists have found the oldest known evidence of the plague, which sparked deadly outbreaks dating back about 5,500 years ...

For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centered on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt ...