These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...

New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...

Americans talk about Civil Rights as a political movement. But as MLK well knew, it was more than that. It was a revival.

Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Uruk, the first city in the whole of world history and the mother of modern urbanisation ...

Today, many of our communications are written digitally, but handwriting still has an important place in our lives. The earliest-known writing dates back to around 3500 - 3100 BC in Mesopotamia, ...

The gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. AMIR MAKAR/AFP Some ...

Nir Arielli’s rigorous history, The Dead Sea, ranges over millennia of the landscape’s paradoxes, conflicts and botanic ...

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 ...