In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

From ancient structures to medieval temples and Mughal-period marvels to modern era buildings, an exhibition celebrating the wealth of India’s architectural heritage opened here on Tuesday to mark the ...

"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...

In a new find under five historic homes in the Iranian city of Abarkuh, archaeologists discovered an underground settlement ...

A marble statue of Hermes along with statue fragments of ancient Greek deities have been unearthed during excavations at the ...

The view is undeniably modern and, as archaeologists were recently reminded, also very ancient. Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at Sukari ...

A farmer working in a field in Poland discovered an ancient piece of jewelry, officials said. Yurii Hetsko via Unsplash A farmer in northeastern Poland was working in his father’s cattle field ...

or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region of southwestern Iran. In 1979 the ...

The view is undeniably modern and, as archaeologists were recently reminded, also very ancient. Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at ...