Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

Bronze Age Minoan ingots with unique markings that were recently discovered show vast trading links between Cyprus and ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

The Rockefeller Archaeological Museum stores some 60,000 artifacts spanning millennia, including unique decorations from the ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

A previously unknown early medieval settlement has been unearthed in Suffolk during preparatory work for an offshore wind ...

American envoy discusses the archaeological site and how without Jerusalem 'there would be no America,' as he presents the ...

Because of its importance not just to Jews, but to the West, excavating the City of David has engendered much hostility, ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

I willingly lie to my child about Santa Claus and I make no apologies. In fact, I don't believe I could ever feel an ounce of ...

Many years before setting up his tripod high atop Puruchuco Hill — an Inca archaeological site east of Lima — like someone ...