Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

The origins of ancient Greek city names like Athens and Olympia reflect mythology, history, and the development of Greek ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of civilization and where farming first emerged. But little is known about how ...

Stories set in ancient worlds beyond Egypt, Greece and Rome offer a rare sense of distance and depth. These historical books ...

Channel 5 has boarded as the first broadcast partner for the Keshet International and SandStone Global co-production Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The three-part history docuseries, presented by ...

The Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) invites applications for a full-time, substantiation-track post at the rank of assistant professor in the field of Ancient World ...

Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Long before Settlers of Catan, Scrabble and ...