According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

A 10-by-6-inch piece of papyrus is, researchers now believe, part of the world’s first book. And, like many of the volumes that fill offices, libraries, and homes, it has had many lives.

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It was originally thought that the ancient stone walls visible on the edge of the Mu Us Desert in the northern province of Shaanxi had once been part of the Great Wall. But, when archaeologists ...

Troy VII is often subdivided into two different phases, Troy VIIa and Troy VIIb, as a major destruction event occurred between 1220 B.C.-1180 B.C. that demarcates two very different phases.

The succession crisis that gripped Egypt near the end of the 18th Dynasty not only plunged the lives of Amenhotep III’s surviving family members into turmoil, it also sealed the fate of an ...

The period between 1050 and 700 B.C. is sometimes referred to as the “Trojan Dark Age.” Traditionally, very little has been known about Troy in the 400-year period after the destruction of the ...

Knowledge of Troy V is, like Troy III and IV, very limited. The settlement did seem to rebound a bit and apparently prospered more than its two predecessors, which is apparent in the improved ...

For three years after his 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologist Howard Carter did not think much about an undecorated wooden box that turned out to contain two small resin ...

Troy II became a much different settlement than its predecessor, as the city gradually developed into a major commercial center with trade contacts extending from the Aegean to central Asia.