Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about ...

The first Assyrian inscription discovered in Jerusalem reveals ancient biblical-era correspondence between Assyrian Empire and Kingdom of Judah, dating back 2,700 years.

Türkiye’s ancient sites are not just relics of the past; they are a living bridge connecting humanity to its earliest ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani tells Newsweek his vision of making his country a global trade, investment and ...

Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They found a few artifacts, including a seemingly unimportant broken piece of ...

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or renovating a bathroom. It sounds like the plot of a movie, right? But across ...

Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the ...

A monumental 5,000-year-old structure has been uncovered by archaeologists in northern Iraq. The excavation at Kani Shaie in ...