Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Fresh finds beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre add hard evidence of a first-century garden and the site’s earlier life ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

From Dorset to Derbyshire, Wales to Wester Ross, these strolls through some of the UK's loveliest landscapes are for all ages ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.