Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

They sifted carefully through the king’s once-grand throne room — and unearthed an “extraordinary” 26,000-pound carving. A team of archaeologists began working at the ancient palace of ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Egypt has received 25 ancient artifacts from the US after a three-year legal and diplomatic effort involving U.S. authorities ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.