The Shatby Necropolis is the resting place of Alexandria's first Greek settlers and the the oldest surviving site in the Egyptian city.

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

No food or medical supplies have reached the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip in nearly two months, since Israel ...

The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired ...

The Nile Delta and most of Egypt north of Abydos were ruled at this time by the Hyksos—a foreign dynasty from the East—while most of the south was ruled by pharaohs from the ancient city of ...

What emerged when archaeologists dug deeper was a whole other city, one that was already ancient when Alexander arrived in Egypt. It turned out that a 3,500-year-old settlement from Egypt’s New ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

In 2024, archaeologists working at a construction site for a plaza development project unearthed 51 ancient tombs dating ... The site was found in Linfen, a city in east-central China.

Minecraft's 1.19 Wild Update introduced the Ancient City, a hidden structure within the Deep Dark biome, offering valuable loot but guarded by the Warden. Locating it requires descending below Y ...

A new discovery unearthed by an international team of archeologists in the heart of modern-day Guatemala has put another piece in the puzzle revealing a turbulent period of time of the ancient ...

The discovery, announced by Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry, was made within the ancient city of Tikal - an enormous city-state which battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for ...

But one ancient city in the country’s deep south often flies under the radar, despite being one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on Earth. The city in question is Matera, a UNESCO ...