For those seeking a quieter, more affordable alternative to Chichén Itzá, these temples across the Yucatán Peninsula offer a ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Gulangyu, located in Xiamen city of Fujian province, has been lauded as a "museum of world architecture", the "island of ...

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

This year, the teams will be trekking across China, Nepal and India. The pairs will travel their way through towns, cities ...

Baghdad: Iraq has announced the discovery of an ancient city dating back to the Abbasid era in Basra Governorate, southern Iraq, estimated to be more than 1,200 years old. Director of the Basra ...

NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant wonder.” It’s best observed in June, but you can start to search for it already in our night sky. The easiest way ...

Or what remedies filled the medicine cabinets of pyramid builders? Turns out, one of ancient Egypt’s most treasured healing plants still exists today — and modern science is finally catching ...

Wisnom’s book recounts the labours of the excavators who uncovered more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments in the mound of earth that covered the ancient city of Nineveh (not far from the ...

All kinds of species and their ancient behaviors The footprints, found in various layers, give an insight into the types of species that passed through the area centuries ago. For example ...

Dark tourism has become a key fixture of the travel industry in recent years and is continuing to expand at an exponential rate. According to research published in Digital Journal, the global ...