Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: During the third century, when the Severan dynasty of Rome ruled Syria, a grand temple dedicated to the sun god Elagabal rose in the city of Emesa.

For decades, archaeologists working in Sudan’s Eastern Desert knew the Atbai held scattered stone ruins, but the terrain was ...

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Years of searching for a lost medieval Norwegian town was finally rewarded with a discovery. Crews used a 500-year-old legend to start the search, ...

Deep beneath the sands of Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, a discovery has started drawing attention again to how much is still buried in plain sight. Arch.