Today, most people know the word as a synonym for "destroy." But fewer realize its origins — or that it's come to mean ...

The Shamash Gate was one of eighteen gates that controlled access to Nineveh, the great capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, situated on the eastern bank of the Tigris River near modern Mosul.

Now, French archaeologist François Desset and his colleagues say they have cracked much of it. If confirmed, their work would ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

Tell el-Farama was once the ancient city of Pelusium — and is sometimes identified with a biblical city called “Sin,” ...