In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani meet the press in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday.

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

The Stargate franchise is one of the most sprawling of the past 30 years, so there's a lot to dig into. Here's the best ...

The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the ...

A new study using chemical fingerprints trapped in Mexican cave stalagmites has revealed the devastating extent of droughts that contributed to the collapse of the astonishing Classic Maya ...

Fareed talks to historian William Dalrymple, author of a new book about the debt the world owes to ancient India, which was the origin of key ideas and innovations like the number zero, the game of ...

The National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico organizes monthly tours to share the country's rich cultural heritage.