We often picture ancient Egyptian temples as plain stone—but they were once full of color. In this video, we explore a ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

A Sanskrit–Greek stele and Buddha statue found in ancient Berenike, Egypt, reveal deep cultural links between Indian traders ...

A 2,700-year-old rock temple has been discovered in Turkey, revealing how the Phrygians worshipped a powerful mother goddess.

The lost city of Imet rises from the Nile Delta, with 2,500-year-old mud houses that stood like skyscrapers in ancient Egypt.

The beginning of the Classical style in Greek sculpture is the beginning of naturalism in art, an important turning point in ...

A lost Maya city. A submerged temple in Italy. Remarkably well-preserved swords in a cave by the Dead Sea. These finds changed our perspective on history. Egyptian officials announced in May the ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

Atop a plateau in northwest Iran, above rolling pastures hemmed in by snowcapped mountains, rest the ruins of a sanctuary at a site known as Takht-e Soleyman, or Throne of Solomon. More than 1,500 ...

The ancient city of Dholavira, the southern centre of the Harappan Civilization, is sited on the arid island of Khadir in the State of Gujarat. Occupied between ca. 3000-1500 BCE, the archaeological ...