Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

Many parties agree that the Thai government must expedite the construction of the high-speed railway between Thailand and ...

Iraqi Kurds holding lit torches walk up a mountain during a procession to celebrate their Nowruz, the Persian New Year, Akra, ...

Tutankhamun ruled ancient Egypt shortly after a period of religious instability, and objects from his tomb suggest he took ...

For more than two millennia, the death and burial of Macedonian king Alexander the Great have been shrouded in mystery. He perished in 323 B.C.E. after suffering from a baffling illness for 12 days — ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Nowruz is a 13-day celebration of the beginning of spring. While the holiday originated among Persian Zoroastrians more than 3,000 years ago, it’s now observed by more than 300 million people across ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

A first-time visitor might arrive with no specific goal and leave with a vintage postcard, a mid-century ashtray repurposed as a trinket dish, or a piece of local memorabilia that creates a personal ...

Temple of Apollo in Ancient Corinth. Credit: Floodmfx/Wikimedia CC BY-SA ... Greek military forces under Macedonian hegemony in their combined conquest of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also known as ...

Her research focused primarily on Ancient Persian artifacts and Islamic Persianate artwork, with special attention to the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), the national epic of Iran. The British Museum ...