Just outside the city of Masvingo in southern Zimbabwe lie the majestic ruins of Great Zimbabwe—an ancient city whose stone ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

Credit: Zde / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Xuan Che / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons The gold and silver mines of North Greece and Lavrio produced the metals the ancient Greeks needed to forge empires and lay the ...

“There was civilization in this place, and despite the shelling and destruction, there is still civilization.” ZIAD ALISSA, a Syrian doctor who lives in France and recently visited Palmyra ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

However, the actual city of Troy had not yet been built. It seems that the chief city of the people was still the city built by Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida. Tros had a son named Ilus. While he ...

(SOUNDBITE OF RUBBLE FALLING) LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: This is the ancient gold market of Aleppo. There's a mangled metal - looks like maybe ... BASEL HAMOUIE: We are trying to install lights all over ...

Hundreds gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers for the late pontiff led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

After more than three decades of excavation efforts in the ancient site of Bethsaida in the Golan Heights, archaeologists have unearthed something miraculous: a city gate that dates back to the time ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud ... Necklace Ugal or head-dress worn by the queen. Find Gold ornaments. Earrings with shapes of pine ...