Throughout history, the monumental constructions of the ancient world have gripped imaginations as much for their feats of ...

In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

This Wonder of the Ancient World shone brightly for more than a thousand years. The Lighthouse of Alexandria towered over the port city founded by Alexander the Great.

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome Susan Wise Bauer, . . Norton, $29.95 (868pp) ISBN 978-0-393-05974-8 ...

“The Western traditions of ancient world history rest on the 18th-century foundations established by the Enlightenment,” Murray asserts, and thus his survey begins, after a tip of the hat to ...

Reading and understanding the ancient stories allows us to abandon our modern preconceptions, step outside our own cultural experiences and enter a very different, life-enhancing world.

We find ways, in short, to represent ourselves as crowds -- through the very medium of our crowd-iness. But we're reinventing applause, too, for a world where there are, technically, no hands.

History’s most impressive hoard of ancient Greek artifacts includes numerous amphoras, terra-cotta lamps, glass vessels, coins, jewelry and statues. Brett Seymour / WHOI More than 4,500 miles ...

Ancient Pyramids Around the World No matter if the civilization was Mesopotamian, Egyptian, or Mayan, its legacy today is in part marked by towering pyramids November 20, 2009 ...

Well, to take a very tame example, when I was a student we barely did the history of women in the ancient world, never mind gender, gender identity, trans politics. That changed with second-wave ...