Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

From the Andes to the Nile, explore ancient civilisations that remain accessible to travellers, with a focus on heritage and ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin in one week, and the United Nations and organizers are calling for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide — as they do every time the Olympics take place.

On the social plane, we have in India a society basedon graded inequality…elevation for some and degradation for others.” — ...

A team of scientists have shared a complete model of a hidden megastructure deep below Egypt's Giza pyramids, which they ...

These cartoons about history are great for parents to watch with their kids to explore history in a factual, fun, and ...

The twin reactors of Hinkley Point C in Somerset will form the first nuclear power plant built in the UK for 30 years.

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Archaeologists came across an astonishing yet perplexing discovery while excavating the site of the historic tomb area in the ...

The Sphinx sits right next to a pharaoh’s pyramid complex, which makes many historians think it was built to watch over his ...