On a modern map this would be Iraq, Syria and the Levant, along with southern Turkey and south-west Iran. We begin in the fourth millennium BC with the Sumerians, whose settlements, Uruk and Ur, were ...

A geology professor believed that aerial photos from the 1950s show evidence of an ancient city under Nakhon Ratchasima in ...

nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient city before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the site said on Wednesday. The discovery ...

In 2011, the city had 10,838 acres considered very high hazard, but that number dropped to 1,945 in the latest map, with another 2,598 deemed high hazard and 2,553 moderate. To determine the ...

This slice of the DESI data maps celestial objects from Earth (center) to billions of light-years away. Among the objects are nearby bright galaxies (yellow), luminous red galaxies (orange), ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

"All the unearthed architectural elements of the city were relocated to a neighbouring location, spanning six kilometres north of the ancient city's original location along six feddans, to ...

The Wheel of Time season 3, episode 4 brought the main characters to Rhuidean, a major location rich with its own lore in ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

World's Oldest City Had a Massive Canal System, Experts Uncover an Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu Throughout history, ...