There's something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn't hide ...

A long-vanished giant of the ancient world is being digitally reconstructed for modern eyes, block by painstaking block. The New York Times reports on the Pharos Project, a French- and Egyptian-led ...

The world is full of amazing places with rich histories, and some countries have stories that go back thousands of years. These ancient lands hold the secrets of early human life, civilisations, and ...

When people picture the ancient world, they often imagine ruins behind museum glass. But many of the world’s oldest cities are still alive, loud, and surprisingly ordinary. Streets mapped out ...

Countries have looted and traded artifacts from one another for centuries. Governments and repatriation activists have called for objects' return to their places of origin. Some famous artifacts, like ...