The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

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

Archaeologists think they may have made a breakthrough discovery of an ancient city with links to a major historical figure.

The site is found near the village of Crnobuki in North Macedonia. The earliest mention of it appears in 1966, but it wasn’t ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth’s circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a testament to the ingenuity of ancient science. Using the differences in ...

Mycenae is an ancient city located on a small hill between two larger hills on the Argolid Plain in Peloponnese, Greece. In Homer's epic poems, Mycenae is ruled by the mythical King Agamemnon, who led ...