Most of Asia was discovered by Darius, who, eager to know in which part of the sea the Indus River empties (which is the second of all rivers in raising crocodiles), sent on some ships, among others ...

At Çatalhöyük, the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Anatolia, archaeologists have uncovered a rare 8,500-year-old wooden ladder fragment—the first physical proof of how its people entered their homes.

Historian Selena Wisnom explores how Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of Assyria, combined calculated brutality with an ...

Scientists have obtained genetic material from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived three to five thousand years ago ...

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy's shining walls, ...

Around 1200 B.C.E., the ancient world experienced one of its most dramatic and puzzling transformations,the Bronze Age Collapse. This period marked the sudden and mysterious downfall of powerful ...

It was estimated to be present in 90% of the population of Eastern Thrace and 80% of the population of the coast of Asia ...

Machiel Kiel transformed a humble childhood into a lifelong mission to preserve the rich, multilayered heritage of the ...