Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year ...

Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era? A 12th Dynasty (1981–1802 B.C.) fresco from the tomb of ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

Because of a long-running border dispute with Thailand, Cambodian soldiers guard the ruins of the Preah Vihear temple complex, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2008.(Masuru Goto ...

An aerial view of Baydha, a settlement beside the Shara Mountains and north of Petra’s famous city center that contains archaeological evidence spanning more than 10,000 years.(Robert Bewley ...

Seen from the air before a major National Trust restoration effort, Knole House in Sevenoaks, Kent, is one of the largest homes in England. It has been expanded and modified many times since the ...

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria. (Colin Carter Photography/Getty ...

In some respects, the life of a Mesopotamian scholar in the seventh century B.C. was not so very different from that of a modern academic. While the former might be responsible for reporting on ...

More than 75 years after D-Day, the Allied invasion’s impact on the French landscape is still not fully understood Troops from the U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division wade into the waters of ...

A peninsula jutting into Guatemala’s Lake Petén Itzá is the site of the ancient Maya city of Nixtun-Ch’ich’. (Courtesy Timothy Pugh/Itza Archaeological Project) New mapping of the city ...

Low tide along the shoreline of Dead Horse Bay reveals thousands upon thousands of glass bottles, household items, and bones dumped as part of more than one hundred years of New York City urban ...

A large-scale excavation in the middle of Berlin has uncovered artifacts and structures dating back eight centuries, including the foundations and machinery of the city’s first electrical plant ...