Is there any evidence that king Atreus of Mycenae really existed? Can he be identified with the Attarsiya of ancient Hittite ...

Ancient Athens celebrated the Spring Equinox as one of the most important feasts, a celebration of resurrection following death.

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

A king's tomb dating back around 3,600 years has been discovered at Abydos, Egypt. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.