The remains of Heliopolis—including its only remaining obelisk—are surrounded by the Cairo neighborhood of Matariya. For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian religion.
Excavations at the site of Ein Gedi, the largest oasis on the barren and rocky western shore of the Dead Sea, have revealed a village that persisted from the 7th century B.C. to the Byzantine period.
A tree stump from an ancient submerged forest that is at least 6,000 years old protrudes from a beach at low tide at Pett Level in Sussex, England. (M.J. Thomas) (Ken Feisel) Experts from the ...