Researchers have identified a "hugely significant" ancient battle site with the help of declassified U.S. spy satellite images. A team of archaeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and Iraq's ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.

A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah ... two ...

Its streets – which have been inhabited for more than 5,000 years – are speckled with ancient monuments, Victorian-era homes, Byzantine churches and mosques, as well as numerous cafes ...

The earliest surviving classical maps of the region are Byzantine versions of Ptolemy’s 4th Asia map based on the map of Marinus of Tyre dating from 150CE using the name Palaistinia. From 325 ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

It includes sections of the city's historic fortifications, spanning from the Hellenistic to the Late Byzantine period ...

A Balkan country in eastern Europe, Bulgaria boasts history going back to the ancient Thracians ... was created here during ...