The price of covering a room in the prized pigment was equal to between 50% and 90% of a Roman legionary's annual salary, a ...

Alexandria on the Tigris reemerges as archaeologists map a forgotten port city that once powered ancient global trade.

Archaeologists have confirmed the location of a long-lost city founded by Alexander the Great — a once-thriving trade hub that’s been hidden for centuries.

A thick band of clay and sand, believed to be the remains of a massive flood, has been discovered beneath ancient ruins in ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet reveals the oldest known trigonometric table, showing ancient scribes used precise triangle ratios.

A 10,000-year-old Turkey settlement discovered at Şika Rika 5 is reshaping what researchers know about early human ...

Archaeologists in Russia have uncovered the remains of a roughly 6,000-year-old board game that could represent an ancestor of chess.

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

The history of Iran, called Persia in ancient times, dates back to antiquity, but it has often been the scene of upheaval and warfare ...

• The KV55 Controversy: DNA analysis from 2010 identified the desecrated mummy in Tomb KV55 as the likely father of Tutankhamun and the heretic king Akhenaten himself, but the lack of severe physical ...

Thousands of years before modern religion, the people of Sumer worshipped a powerful deity they called the "Mother of All Kings." Ninhursag was the architect of life itself, a goddess of fertility ...