Archaeologists have discovered a 3,500-year-old military fortress with a zigzag-style wall in the north Sinai Desert of Egypt ...

Seven fully preserved skeletons found in an ancient city in Croatia have been identified as Roman soldiers who would have ...

The fortress was erected during the New Kingdom, which spanned from 1550 to 1070 B.C., making it at least 3,000 years old. Pharaohs in this period, considered to be the golden age of ancient Egypt, ...

Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

The French defence industry is one of the strongest in Europe, and France itself is trying to portray itself as a leader of ...

Now, Franck Goddio, the French underwater archaeologist who rediscovered Thonis-Heracleion, says the 82-foot-long (25-meter-long) military ship was discovered in the major canal that flowed along the ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed one of the New Kingdom's largest fortresses in North Sinai's Sheikh Zayed, spanning ...

A 2,000-year-old tombstone of a Roman sailor that was found in New Orleans will be repatriated to a museum in Civitavecchia, ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed ...

A seemingly ordinary yard clearance in New Orleans led to an extraordinary archaeological discovery—an ancient Roman ...

The hydraulic telegraph, a telecommunications device invented by ancient Greeks, allowed the sending of long distance ...