While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Alexander the Great famously founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BCE. It went on to be the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

The exhibition halls of Sudan's biggest museum were once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient ...

Since antiquity, Aleppo has been famous for gold. But a post-war crime wave means jewelers no longer display gold in windows. The city is installing solar-powered streetlights to fight crime.

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian burial ground ... the sprawling necropolis that once served the nearby Egyptian capital of Memphis. The excavators overseen by Youssef uncovered ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

If true, it would be the oldest urban center in the Americas and among the most ancient in all the world ... and 120 miles north of Peru’s capital city of Lima, Caral lies in a desert region ...

Like Morocco, Egypt is a country where one can find ancient traditions mingling with bustling city life, where every corner tells a story, and where hospitality and flavorful cuisine are at the ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve found the city of Lyncus. In the 7th century BCE, Lyncus was the capital city of Lyncestis ... and power structures of ancient Macedonia, especially given the ...

What emerged when archaeologists dug deeper was a whole other city, one that was already ancient when Alexander arrived in Egypt. It turned out that a 3,500-year-old settlement from Egypt’s New ...