After six years of excavation in North Sinai, Egyptian archaeologists have identified the remains of a temple dedicated to ...

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A peer-reviewed study combining satellite radar imagery with ground-based electrical scans has identified a buried mudbrick ...

Uruk, the world’s first metropolis and the birthplace of written language, was nourished by the Euphrates River, as was Babylon, ancient Mesopotamia’s grandest city. The fertile plain between the ...

A digital tool lets users explore the Roman Empire’s road network and, using historical data, estimate how long journeys between cities took 2,000 years ago. A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, with ...

The Egyptian mission working in the area of Tell el-Ku'a, in the Wadi Tumilat of the Ismailia province, has brought to light a set of tombs, a residential area, and various production facilities ...

Walk past the line of souvenir shops in a particular street in Madaba. You arrive at the Church of Saint George in this ancient city in Jordan. Its façade thoug ...

Carmela Karcher is an Emmy award-winning journalist who joined the CBS Sacramento news team in February 2025. As a Bay Area native, she is thrilled to be close to her hometown and reporting in ...

Roughly 7 kilometres off the coast of modern Egypt, beneath the shallow waters of the Bay of Aboukir, lies a city that most of the world has forgotten existed. Known in antiquity as Thonis-Heracleion, ...

Study reveals Euphrates River formed millions of years ago when ancient rivers merged due to tectonic activity, reshaping ...

Greco-Roman era cemetry found at Tell Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Nile Delta. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered part of an ancient cemetery from the ...

When I first became co-director of an archaeological project at Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan in 2018, I was amazed by the site's pyramids, temples and palaces. It had been an urban center in the ...