Rebuilding the past often takes more than digging through ruins or reading faded scrolls. To truly understand ancient ...

Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE) was known as an innovative warrior and a benevolent king. He expanded the Achaemenid Dynasty to ...

The Iraqi government has shown little investment in reconstruction, and only thanks to NGOs have some churches been renovated ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

The Phoenicians were known for their exceptional naval skills which stemmed from two notable innovations at the time. HEre's ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire ... find everything in the ancient city that is today ...

When Denise learned in February that she might have to pay out of pocket for her weekly therapy sessions, the military veteran from Virginia started to panic. She’d been seeing her psychologist ...