Pelusium, located on the eastern edge of the Nile Delta, was a vital border fortress protecting Egypt from invasions from the ...

A team of South Korean researchers has made a major historical discovery in Luxor, Egypt, unearthing a 3,300-year-old cartouche bearing the name of Pharaoh Ramses II. The hieroglyphic inscription was ...

After six years of archaeological excavation work at the Tell el-Farama site, located in the ancient city of Pelusium in the ...

During the third century, when the Severan dynasty of Rome ruled Syria, a grand temple dedicated to the sun god Elagabal rose ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old temple in Denmark — offering a glimpse into the mysterious, once-powerful society that built it. The Museum of Central Jutland (Museum Midtjylland) ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor, stand ...

Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...

PALASPATA, BOLIVIA—According to a statement released by Penn State, American and Bolivian researchers discovered a previously unknown temple built by the enigmatic Tiwanaku civilization near the ...

"This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900-2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the frontrunner of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece. Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Olympics in ...

In 1861, the British Raj had an epiphany. To better assert their control over the Indian population, they felt they needed to ...