TEHRAN - The recent World Heritage registration of the Hegmataneh has sparked a tourism boom, with visitor numbers to the ...

The glorious entrance of Alexander the Great in Babylon as conqueror and savior was the culmination of his achievements.

Over three excavation seasons, archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Jagiellonian University and the archaeological company Pryncypat, identified 23 inhumation burials—where bodies ...

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...

Egyptian archaeologists have announced that they recently discovered a bronze sword bearing the symbol of King Ramesses II, ...

At the ancient site of Fregellae in central Italy, recent archaeological excavations uncovered the region’s oldest ...

Vases found in Guatemala offer rare physical proof of tobacco use among ancient Maya, but with a twist: This time, they didn’t inhale.

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

It’s fitting that it was the expansion-minded ancient Romans who built Europe’s first super highway — they understood the ...

TEHRAN - The eighth annual festival celebrating Lalejin’s designation as a global hub for pottery by the World Crafts Council ...