Roman military officials stationed at an Egyptian port were crazy about their pets, and seem to have been particularly fond ...

What do we know about the legendary Egyptian King Sesostris? Was he a real person? According to evidence, he was.

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.

If you enjoy trivia, picking up obscure historical references is part of the fun of antiques. Most people probably haven’t ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...