Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

The modern city of Luxor, known in the ancient world as Thebes, has one of the largest concentrations of ancient monuments in ...

However, not everyone knows that these lands conceal a rich legacy of ancient Turkic culture. Scattered across the region, ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle, flooding the arena ...

Ezgi Aslan, 21, said she believed the ancient beauty rituals strengthened the skin itself, more so than modern products.

The rare artifact was found during an ongoing excavation project in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city near Karabük, and dated to ...

Discover the life and legacy of Lycurgus, Sparta's legendary lawgiver, whose reforms forged a society of equality and ...

Gladiator II director Ridley Scott famously does not care about historical accuracy in his films but we had to ask.

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span ...

Travel writers from the US and Canada toured the Sanliurfa Archaeology Museum -- home to artifacts from UNESCO World Heritage ...