In an astonishing case of cultural heritage misuse, a 3,000-year-old Phrygian rock-cut tomb in the village of Ayazini, Türkiye, has been illegally transformed into a café-restaurant.

For centuries, garum's pungent, briny charm haunted the written word of imperial cooks and self-righteous philosophers only.

Under the quaint Provençal village of Arles, the skeleton of a lost empire in stone, lime, and lead has been unboxed through geological archaeology.

A newly revealed private collection of ancient Egyptian hard-stone vessels has ignited intense debate among archaeologists, engineers, and alternative historians alike.

Strong maternal lines recovered from ancient DNA samples at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, along with archaeological evidence of female-centered practice, points to a socio-cultural practice of mat ...

In the shadowed depths of Margaux Cave in Belgium's Meuse Valley, archaeologists in the late 1980s uncovered the scattered remains of at least nine women who had lived during the Mesolithic period, ov ...

In the floodplain of Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, sun-baked and desolate, archaeologists have uncovered a city once built under the watchful eye of the cobra goddess, Wadjet.

In the chilly darkness of Obłazowa Cave, hidden away in southern Poland's limestone cliffs, a remarkable relic slumbered beneath the grime for tens of thousands of millennia.

Shambhala, which is a Sanskrit word meaning “place of peace” or “place of silence,” is a mythical paradise spoken of in ancient texts, including the Kalachakra Tantra and the ancient scriptures of the ...

The elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru caused a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testing reported that they have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human, ...

The fall of Babylon is a historical event that occurred in 539 BC. This event saw the conquest of Babylon by the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great and marked the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire ...

In a far-off corner of Brazil's Upper Amazon, seven massive funerary urns have been excavated from under the roots of a fallen tree — and with them, a whole chapter in the history of the Indigenous is ...