Readers favored cities with historic roots as well as modern metropolises in our annual “World’s Best Awards” survey for 2025.

Archaeologists in Peru have unveiled a 3,500-year-old city that served as a trading hub connecting cultures of the Pacific ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This ...

The Middle East's complexity is its greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity. Its next act will be written not just by ...

One of Jordan's best-known archaeological sites, only an hour's drive from Amman, the old Greco-Roman city is not to be ...

About 90 per cent of the man’s skeleton was preserved and he was estimated to be about 60 years old. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In fact, this is an old problem. Countries have enlisted God or gods on their side in conflicts since ancient times. One egregious example was the First World War, when politicians and clergy on both ...

On Sunday, the UK Foreign Office advised against all travel to Israel. Now, travellers are looking at the map of the wider region with concern over whether it is safe to travel to Turkey.