Archaeologists in Türkiye may have just unearthed the tomb of Saint Nicholas, the real-life inspiration for Santa Claus.

In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...

A Jewel of Ottoman Architecture, Zeyrek Cinili Hamam was commissioned by Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa and designed by ...

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine ...

From a marble god stashed in a sewer to a mysterious ancient object whose use has been lost to time, the best archaeological ...

BCE, two great figures of ancient military history passed away. One was the Roman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus; the ...

In a first, cave pearls discovered in Israel were found to encapsulate man-made objects, specifically ancient Greek artifacts ...

Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights?

A number of Byzantine coins discovered in China and Japan indicate that there was a trade link between the Byzantine Empire ...

Archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña in the Dominican Republic, said she ...

This Dorset Christ pulls together all the hopes of the ancient world, the deepest of all human hopes: that death is only part of a larger story that will culminate in abundance of life and even ...

Labourers digging a ditch to lay gas pipes in Athens uncovered an ancient marble statue and Roman-era archeological objects, ...