The holy city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka is the alleged home of a map that could unlock the secrets of the universe.

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual ...

offering a window into a vanished world. Click through these beautiful images to see the most celebrated ancient cities on Earth.

Gordion was the capital of ancient Phrygia, an Iron Age kingdom of Anatolia, said to have been ruled by the legendary King ...

Few cities fell as ferociously as the broken stones which decorate the north coast of what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the great capitals of the ancient world; the heartbeat of the Punic ...

Inspired by the Greek capital's long history of democracy, countless cities across the world have adopted the name of Athens ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

China is one of the most populous countries in the world, surpassed only by India. By the end of 2023, China boasted a population of about 1.4 billion people. Although this marked the country's second ...

Unlike the nearby ancient city of Salamis whose Roman ruins stand ... Claude Schaeffer fought for the Germans in World War I as a German, and for the French in World War II. Pictured here on ...

The findings support the idea that the excavation site of Kurd Qaburstan is the ancient city of regional capital Qabra, but ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.