Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

Packaged foods are a modern convenience, but the concept of preserving and packaging food for storage and transport has been around for centuries. Whether driven by exploration, trade, or necessity, ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

The oldest castles in the world that are still open for visitors unveil centuries of history within their walls and stones.

While Confucius traveled with his disciples to various feudal states, Greek historian Herodotus traversed mountains and seas ...

Cave of El Castillo, Spain Some of the oldest known paintings in the world are in the Cave of the Castle, in Cantabria in the north of Spain. Thought to be more than 40,000 years old, many of the ...

Before skyscrapers and smartphones, there were cities, bustling hubs of culture, trade, and so much more. Some of these ancient urban marvels offer us a glimpse of the ancient world.

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

‘Penelope’s Bones’ Review: Queens of the Bronze Age The women of Greece’s oldest civilization wove fabrics, carried weapons and wept over their lost children. By A.E. Stallings Share Resize ...

Heraklion, the capital of the Greek island of Crete, is an ancient city that perhaps is under-appreciated for its many ...

The oldest known complete bow ever found is the Holmegård bow, which turned up in a peat bog in Denmark after World War II. It was made from a thin elm trunk and is on display at the National ...