The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of ...

Fencing may be one of the Olympics' oldest events, but three-time Olympian Miles Chamley-Watson says it urgently needs a ...

A monastery overlooking the Mediterranean will be one of the stops on Pope Leo XIV’s three-day visit to Lebanon, a country of ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Picture a country where pharaohs once ruled, and billion-dollar smart cities rise from desert sands. Egypt isn’t just about ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

A sinkhole collapse at an historic English churchyard revealed a 300-year-old family vault. Rev. Paul Fillery, a church ...

On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...