A 1,500-year-old tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments is set to go up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York this ...

My heart is breaking. My soul is aching,” an archaeologist said, as Israel’s bombardment threatens or destroys Roman amphitheaters, crusaders’ citadels and centuries-old souks.

The discovery has been published in the recent study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman of ...

Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...

For decades it was merely a sidewalk stone at a home in the Middle East, its significance unbeknownst to its owner. Now, the ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

For thirty years, the plaque served as a paving stone at the entrance of a house, with the inscription facing up and exposed ...

This center comprised an entire civilization, the earliest yet found ... We're inclined to picture people in the ancient past ...

Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and Rome.

[Photo provided by Mingmei Li/China Daily] Spanning millennia, the history and mystery of Sanxingdui's ancient civilization is reaching international audiences through modern digital platforms.