For decades, it was little more than a vague reference in the accounts of explorers and travelers. A great route running east ...

In the first half of 1945, the Japanese press began spreading some astonishing messages: their bombings had set North ...

An international team of archaeologists and geologists has discovered beneath the foundations of the Ishtar Temple in Assur ...

A scene carved into the rock, of extraordinary brutality, has remained exposed to the elements for millennia in the arid landscape of the southwestern Sinai Peninsula. It depicts a large man, with his ...

In the inland Alentejo, in southern Portugal, far from the Atlantic coast and the major estuaries, the land has preserved a secret that challenges what we thought we knew about how and where the last ...