Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...

The home of Georgian Jews represents a major crossroad for multiple cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. Human histories and fates that intersected at this juncture had shaped each ...

A small town on the coast of Cyprus was destroyed in an earthquake in the early 4th century. Archaeologists beginning in the 1930’s started to excavate the town of Kourion but two of them died from ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role. New archaeological finds add to evidence that the Maya city of Tikal in ...