The 2,500-year-old Maiden’s Tower in Istanbul is an icon of the city and has recently reopened after a major two-year ...

An inscribed marble slab featuring the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The stone — written in archaic Samaritan Hebrew script — is the oldest known text ...

As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare ...

A hidden inscription from an amulet found in a Roman grave has been deciphered, revealing new insights into early Christianity.

Researchers dated the grave where the amulet was found to between 230 and 270 AD. This is the earliest evidence of ...

From the plight of ancient Egyptian scribes to the identities of ancient Maya sacrifices, 2024 brought a rich medley of insights into human history.

One of the earliest tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments (dating to A.D. 300-800) is scheduled to go up for auction at ...

Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west of Libya.

The magnificent ancient city of Nikopolis is located in Epirus, the western part of the modern state of Greece.

Secrets of Palestinians' UNESCO-listed Nablus soap Initiated into the thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making by a distant relative, Umm al-Abed is now passing on the secrets of the practice ...

Although there may be some earlier evidence of ritual practices by modern humans, such as the 40,000-year-old "lion man" stone figurine from a cave in Germany, the study noted that the boulder in the ...