Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

John’s River Cheapest European cities to fly to in 2025 Travel: I love Philadelphia, but I’d never taken a City Hall tour ... a famous — and very ancient — resident: “Lucy,” one ...

A groundbreaking study using advanced radar technology has revealed a vast and intricate underground structure beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by Nicole Evatt, vendors sell everything from spices to handwoven baskets and live ...

So, we embarked on a whirlwind trip that would prove him right, an ambitious three-day sprint through remote sacred sites and bustling city streets ... famous — and very ancient — resident ...

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia ... B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known ...

Some 2,000 years ago, these structures stood in the ancient city of Teos—a thriving metropolis across the sea from Athens. Founded around the tenth century B.C.E., Teos grew into a populous ...

Finds in the region have long hinted at a once-thriving settlement, with the latest discovery of a funerary complex promising to unpack more of the city’s ancient secrets. Archaeologists turned ...

submerging much of the city. Historical records from the time describe a devastating natural disaster that also ravaged Alexandria, one of the greatest intellectual centers of the ancient world ...

Nicknamed the "Mysterious Lady," the first-century-B.C. mummy was found in the Egyptian city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) but was brought to the University of Warsaw in Poland in 1826.

From around 200 AD, the shape of London was defined by one single structure; it’s massive city wall. From Tower Hill in the East to Blackfriars Station in the West, the wall stretched for two miles ...