The discovery of 'sacrificed' teenagers from 4,800 years ago in the royal tombs of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization ...

A new exhibition opening in Paris on Friday showcases archaeological artifacts from Gaza, once a major commercial crossroads ...

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

The event, part of the PCMS Education Program, served as a prelude to Ferguson and Jackson’s Philadelphia Chamber Music ...

In recent years, authorities have intensified efforts to recover stolen antiquities, with notable successes, including the repatriation of artifacts from the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...

They date back to the Akkad period (2300BC-2150BC), which, Rey tells The Art Newspaper, was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian history—featuring charismatic kings such as Naram-Sin ...

With the launch of its new website, the CIA Museum is bringing its sprawling collection of spy artifacts out of the shadows and into the public eye Eli Wizevich - History Correspondent As the ...

Today we would call him an Assyriologist, an expert in the language and history of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures ... Soon spectacular artifacts from the excavation were on display at museums ...

Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial site at Tell Ruwad Iskandar in Egypt’s Ismailia Governorate, revealing ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC. The ritualistic-looking item was ...

Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native ... The site’s missing or decontextualized artifacts previously made for fuzzy conclusions about the Akkad government.