The discovery of 'sacrificed' teenagers from 4,800 years ago in the royal tombs of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization ...

A new exhibition opening in Paris on Friday showcases archaeological artifacts from Gaza, once a major commercial crossroads between Asia and Africa, whose heritage has been ravaged by Israel's ongoin ...

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...

Once part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 and 2800 B.C. Several stone tombs were discovered ...

Recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, this bronze device is considered one of the most advanced ...

Ancient Greek and Egyptian artifacts found in the biblical city of Megiddo. Credit: Immanuel Giel / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have discovered new evidence at the ancient city of Megiddo in northern ...

Soon spectacular artifacts from the excavation were on ... Ur is like the Springfield of ancient Mesopotamia—many regions had a city with that name. The biblical text itself seems to place ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

With the launch of its new website, the CIA Museum is bringing its sprawling collection of spy artifacts out of the shadows and into the public eye Eli Wizevich - History Correspondent As the ...

Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial site at Tell Ruwad Iskandar in Egypt’s Ismailia Governorate, revealing ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian ...

Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native ... The site’s missing or decontextualized artifacts previously made for fuzzy conclusions about the Akkad government.