To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They ...

At the HSBC Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival next weekend, Eshan will take us beyond the beaten track, introducing little ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

The standout images are ships, some carved upright, others upside down, packed with small human figures whose heads are unusually clearly defined. Fjeld and his daughter also spotted the “sole of a ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

These maps detailed the Great Mongolian Road, which included key settlements and important water sources.

A “forgotten Alexandria” on the Tigris is being pulled back into focus by archaeologists using drones and geophysics, revealing what appears to have been a vast, carefully planned metropolis in ...

Alexandria on the Tigris reemerges as archaeologists map a forgotten port city that once powered ancient global trade.

To rapidly map regions in fine detail, researchers need national but not necessarily local permission to carry out an aerial scan. It's similar to how Google can map your home without your consent.

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian ...