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 ...

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

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands ...

This is the dramatic moment a huge fire tore across a family's garden - and spread towards their home while they were ...

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

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

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 ...

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 ...

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.