Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

In an inspiring cultural revival, the Sunyatee International Foundation in Malaysia is on a mission to reclaim ancient Indian ...

A digital architectural reconstruction has researchers believing a “lost Pompeii” existed with towers atop villas.

Ancient Egypt lasted thousands of years, yet much of its knowledge vanished. Entire dynasties collapsed, leaving gaps ...

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

Discover fascinating ancient myths and legends – from lost cities to warrior women – that archaeologists and scientists have ...

Ancient Egypt lasted thousands of years, yet much of its knowledge vanished. Entire dynasties collapsed, leaving gaps historians still struggle to fill. Technologies, beliefs, and records were lost ...

Nearby what was thought to be the oldest known astrological observatory in the Western Hemisphere, archaeologists discovered ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.

At the ancient fortress site at Usu Aska, archaeologists excavated a Parthian-era coin beside the jawbone of a buried man.

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...