The “Ancient Marvels” Facebook page is dedicated to interesting posts displaying human and natural artifacts from across ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has unearthed a 3,200-year-old military fort deep within Egypt's Beheira ...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate with Democratic ...

These are the ancient names of countries before modernity. Many countries have undergone name changes over time, often for a ...

The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized historically and transculturally, yet the influence of the pre-Islamic Persian past and Persian forms of ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: ...

Unicorns appear in the Bible, on Renaissance paintings, in children's fairy tales, on t-shirts, and phone cases. Find out how ...

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city ...

Under King Darius I, the Persian Empire had been expanding its territory and aimed to conquer Greece, which was seen as a ...

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) is one of the most famous last stands in history. However, the Spartans did not march to ...

For his revenge in Greece, the Achaemenid king mobilised men from all over the empire. Not only did the Persians themselves ...