Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight.

UK officials hinted Tuesday that a deal was in the works with Greece to end a decades-long dispute over the highly contested ...

Nestled about an hour east of Crete's Heraklion airport lies the sleepy town of Elounda. More of a coastal village, really, ...

Why are the locations of past atrocities, natural disasters, infamous deaths and incarcerations so popular with visitors?

Of all the additions, the Temple, with its statue of ... This was later changed to Greek Doric after Mrs Garrick’s death and an upper floor was added in 1922. Extended on either side in the ...

Ahram Weekly continues tour of world Egyptological collections after the soft opening of Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum with a ...

The interior decoration of the temple includes three distinct layers ... The church is modeled after Constantinople’s Church of the Holy Apostles, and it follows a Greek cross plan with five domes, ...

Herodotus, the Greek historian ... we dig down below the floor level, up in the relieving chambers above the King's chamber, and in many monuments of the Old Kingdom, temples, the Sun temples ...

Even after uncovering walls, halls, dozens of rooms, pillars and pillar bases, and over 1,200 hieroglyphic inscriptions, the ...