High in the rugged cliffs of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, two colossal statues once gazed out over a land crisscrossed by ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

This is the scene in Sudan's biggest museum where the exhibition halls once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient civilizations are trashed, littered with debris. Since the ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of antiquity. Credit: Georges Rochegrosse, / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons ...

The Purim holiday, which was created to celebrate the saving of the Jews from genocide in ancient Persia, is celebrated on March 13 and 14. The group explained that it canceled the event out of an ...

It reflects the enduring grandeur and funerary traditions of ancient Persian kingship. The renewed focus on this monument follows concerns raised by cultural heritage advocates about its preservation.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue that the New York District Attorney’s Office said was looted from a site in Turkey will be put on public display one final time at the ...

The ancient Persians were an amazing civilization, and incredible inventors. Here are their 3 most incredible ancient inventions, the Windcatchers (their form of ancient air-conditioning ...