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

Syria’s civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and ...

The Trojan War was the famous conflict between the Trojans and the Greeks. But surprisingly, the city of Troy itself was ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

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

The Antikythera mechanism continues to stupefy researchers who have yet to determine how it detected the movement of the ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...