In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower.

They found some Khamun ground. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old town that was possibly erected by King ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...

At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...