The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

Imagine standing atop a rugged mountain range, gazing at an ancient landscape that whispers stories older than any nation. Now, picture looking at a map and realizing the names you see—those neat, ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

In a one-of-a-kind discovery, archaeologists working within the Saqqara necropolis (south of Cairo, Egypt) found a pink ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...