The remains of Heliopolis—including its only remaining obelisk—are surrounded by the Cairo neighborhood of Matariya. For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian religion.
Excavations at the site of Ein Gedi, the largest oasis on the barren and rocky western shore of the Dead Sea, have revealed a village that persisted from the 7th century B.C. to the Byzantine period.
A tree stump from an ancient submerged forest that is at least 6,000 years old protrudes from a beach at low tide at Pett Level in Sussex, England. (M.J. Thomas) (Ken Feisel) Experts from the ...
Panels of artwork engraved by Native Americans between 1,000 and 400 years ago have been found deep within a cave now known as Unnamed Cave 11. More than 100 such caves have been discovered in the ...
The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared to its other sides, where the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were once located. Recent work there has shown ...