On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak. The International Everest Day rally in Kathmandu on Thursday marks the first summit cl ...

The story of Ancient Egypt is the story of the Nile. The river’s floods, cycles, and central location allowed a great ...

They built sophisticated cities ... Great at the Battle of Kadesh resulted in the world’s first peace treaty. (3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire.) “They were ...

The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest ...

Summer is, perhaps counterintuitively, the season when many of us find ourselves with our nose constantly in a book. Warm weather and long days stoke the desire to let time and obligations fall away, ...

Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city. They sifted carefully ...

While cities around the globe are known for their nightlife, Hanoi is just one of the many urban centers that spring to life before the sun even rises. And as global temperatures continue to ...

Eli Piasetzky, a physicist from Tel Aviv University, drew from the ancient names recorded in the ... the researchers were able to factor out the limitations of their sample. They also applied ...

The 13th-century citadel, 12th-century Great Mosque and various ... of occupation of the walled city contain important religious buildings and residences. Fundamental changes to parts of the city took ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed ruins from a hidden ancient palace which housed popes for centuries before the Vatican was ... and signs of restoration were visible in some of the walls.