Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s AlUla is preparing to open new chapters in the history of the ancient city of Dadan, the former capital of the Kingdoms of Dadan and Lihyan, through a new permanent exhibition ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

When you picture medieval warfare, you might think of epic battles and famous monarchs. But what about the everyday soldiers ...

In a dimly lit office in a corner of the French National Institute for Art History, Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo ...

Excavation of the burial revealed it to be a "bustum," a type of Roman-era funeral practice in which the deceased was ...

This is a story of how patriotic Greeks saved the famous stele from the French. Credit: diffendale. CC BY-2.0/flickr The story of the Lemnian Stele (also known as the Kaminia Stele) begins in 1885 in ...

A man in France who discovered a cache of gold worth more than $800,000 this year will be allowed to keep it, News.Az reports citing the Washington Times. The man, a resident of Neuville-sur-Saone ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of ...

Reports of archaeological finds from Oman, a middle-eastern country on the Arabian Peninsula, are rarely in the news. But this week, archaeologists in Oman have reported the unearthing of the largest ...

Mehrgarh is an archaeological site situated in the Balochistan, in the southwestern part of Pakistan. In the native Balochi language, ‘mehr’ is said to mean ‘love’, and ‘garh’ means heaven. Thus, the ...