Political parties representing the Assyrian people in Iraq established the Assyrian Martyrs' Monument in the city of Simmele ...

Unlike similar cultural emergencies that followed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, "Sudan has not benefited from strong media coverage denouncing the degradation and plundering of its cultural heritage." ...

Buried beneath the waters of Quintana Roo, Mexico lies a discovery that breaks the historical timeline wide open — a 12,500-year-old ochre mine carved into limestone by organized hands. These weren’t ...

We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age ...

Learn which engineering branch is known as the oldest engineering discipline. Learn about its history, its significance, the ...

After more than five decades of Warren’s Civil War monument missing a sword, Civil War reenactor Jim Rapone of Champion ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of humanity. These reads go beyond dates and dynasties, offering power struggles, ...

St Cuthbert lived on the island of Lindisfarne on a diet of raw onions, and died in AD 687. Four centuries later his coffin ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Two hundred thousand Irishmen - give or take the dead, the maimed, the mad, the misremembered - who put on British khaki and ...