And if archaeology hadn't emerged in the 18th century, many of these civilizations would have become permanently lost to time ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

The area today occupied by southeastern Jordan was rich in copper, which Egypt used in everything from tools to weapons to pigments—it would later be competed over by the Assyrians and Babylonians.

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

The Assyrians are a very old people, much older than the Greeks ... Assyrians are grateful to the British for removing the remnants of their ancient past to the British Museum for they feel ...

First came the felling itself on 3 April which, it seems, few people noticed ... Enfield could be additional protections for Britain's ancient trees. An emergency tree preservation order has ...

Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad ... The artifacts were preserved because they were primarily produced in monasteries. "People were compiling and copying them in the ...