Created by Cyrus the Great with contributions from various peoples of the first great multicultural empire in Western Asia, Pasargadae showcases the initial phase of Achaemenid royal art and ...

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his ...

It’s alarming that so many know so little of the past, when it’s being weaponised to determine the present ...

An international team of archaeologists, led by Antonis Bartsiokas with Democritus University of Thrace, in Greece, has uncovered evidence that a tunic found in one of the Royal Tombs at Vergina ...

A collection of ancient Iranian rock reliefs are cut into the face of the mountain and the mountain contains the final resting place of four Achaemenid kings, notably king Darius the Great and his son ...

They have found a purple-dyed textile in the 2,400-year-old Royal Tombs. This extraordinary find is believed to have belonged to Alexander the Great. For decades, archaeologists have been aware ...

The first obvious thing to do when trying to locate Alexander the Great’s tomb is see what ancient texts say about it. Ptolemy, who was the governor of Egypt at that time, brought Alexander’s body to ...

A roughly 3,900-year-old tomb of an Egyptian priestess named Idy was discovered full of burial goods. Located behind a stone wall within a famous tomb near the ancient city of Asyut, experts were ...

The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage. The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city ...

Tombs inside a necropolis there contained metal weapons like axes and daggers as well as stones such as agate, indicating a relatively advanced society for so long ago. Pieces of pottery "suggest ...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a collection of remarkable architectural achievements, have long captivated the ...