A site in Switzerland contained evidence of an administrative center that was part of a bigger plan to build a urban center ...

Look beyond the world's usual city break destinations and uncover a collection of underrated, under-the-radar cities that ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

Plans for a major visitor center at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem promise education and security, but opponents say ...

Archaeologists at the Hisardere Necropolis in Iznik found an early Christian fresco inside a tomb that depicts a young, clean ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of Hanukkah ...

When you look at the world’s oldest tourist sites, their survival often feels improbable. Many of these places were built ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered over 60 ancient tombs in Colossae, a biblical city immortalized in the New Testament. The discoveries were reported by Anadolu Agency (AA), a state-run ...