Ahead is the Sultan Fort, stronghold of Sheikh Zayed’s father, its main gate flanked by a pair of cannons and its crenellations stark against the horizon. Above and to the right are the shadowy ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Archeologists in Egypt have uncovered a large military fortress dating back thousands of years close to the Gaza strip. The ...

The couple hadn't known how the artifact made its way to their property in New Orleans. But after their story went viral, a ...

"At the side wall of a stone box-shaped object, we came across, to our astonishment, a stone slab with carved features of a human face. It's an idol figure, preserved in its original context," Dr.

Experts say the notorious emperor Commodus may have survived an assassination attempt inside this tunnel, which is now open ...

A study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, uncovers how flexibility made ...

Scientists believe they’ve decoded the mysterious symbols of Teotihuacan, revealing a potential ancient ancestor of Nahuatl.

New archaeological findings suggest that the Northern Aegean region was a major commercial power centuries earlier than ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Gortyna on the Greek island of Crete have made an unusual discovery: a life-size statue depicting a pig. The rare find, uncovered during July and August ...

This ‘Secrets of the Dead’ presentation follows the excavation in the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, of a temple dedicated to ...