Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

This is likely because there is lots of public information about other ancient empires, like Persia, having standing armies. “If you get told A and B 100 times, and C 1 time, and then get asked ...

From there, the only way is down - deep into long-undisturbed catacombs built on an ancient burial ground, and perhaps even deeper still. A glimpse of Zombies mode's new The Tomb map.

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a professor in the department of classics and ancient history at Durham University A striking ...