A 7,000-year-old prehistoric mummy from Libya's Saharan past returned to the country Sunday after more than 20 years in Italy, touching down at Mitiga Airport in Tripoli aboard an Italian military aircraft.
The mummy, known as "Takarkori" or TK H1,...
Archaeologists in western Turkey have uncovered a sacred area inside the North Temple of Blaundos (Greek: Βλαῦνδος), an ancient Greek city founded during the Hellenistic period and later shaped by Roman and Byzantine rule.
The discovery is shedding new light...
A 2,750-year-old stone discovered inside a mansion in Israel destroyed by the Assyrians may provide new evidence for religious reforms traditionally linked to King Hezekiah, according to a new study.
Published in the 2026 edition of the peer-reviewed Jerusalem Journal...
It is difficult to overstate just how unusual and ingenious Al-Masudi was for his time.
Most history written in the 10th century is what we would consider “conventional” history. It consists of lists of kings, battles, and religious lineages, page...
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered two remarkably well-preserved marble busts with a Greek inscription dating back about 1,700 years near Binyamina, shedding new light on life during the Roman and Byzantine periods.
The marble busts, known as protomes, depict figures...
Archaeologists have uncovered two freeze-dried potatoes roughly 500 years old at an Inca provincial center on the southern coast of Peru, making it one of the rarest food finds in more than a century of excavations in the area.
The...
A fire broke out at a historic Orthodox Christian cathedral in Kyiv during a sweeping overnight Russian missile and drone attack, officials in Ukraine said.
The blaze struck the Assumption Cathedral (also known as the Dormition Cathedral) within the Kyiv-Pechersk...
The US and Iran have reached an agreement in principle to immediately end the war in the Middle East across all fronts, including Lebanon. The breakthrough was announced in the early hours of Monday by Pakistan, which is playing...
The final draft of a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States includes a commitment by Tehran to refrain from producing or acquiring nuclear weapons, a senior Iranian official said in speaking to Reuters.
The MoU with the...
A Greek Orthodox nun in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India has become a symbol of the eternal fight against poverty, illiteracy, child trafficking, and prostitution in the city.
Sister Nectaria Paridisi, by most accounts the only Greek individual left in Kolkata,...
The world's biggest snake, a previously unknown species of giant anaconda, was discovered recently in an Amazon rainforest.
With a length of up to 7.5 meters and a weight of nearly 500 kilograms, this newfound species now holds the title...
The United States and Iran, says Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz, are to sign an initial peace deal within the next 24 hours, Reuters has reported.
The two nations have agreed on a framework for a peace deal that could end...
Researchers working at the ancient Greek city of Termessos (Greek: Τερμησσός) in modern-day Turkey have identified two Greek inscriptions that are shedding new light on the city's political identity and ritual life in antiquity.
Located in the mountains of ancient...
A small clay figurine, broken and seemingly unremarkable, may hold one of the earliest known examples of numerical notation in the ancient world. Researchers studying a Guatemala figurine have found what appears to be an early form of Mesoamerican...
Archaeologists are excavating a prehistoric cave in northern Israel that could provide rare insights into early human life, how they adapted, and developed new technologies hundreds of thousands of years ago.
The cave was discovered on the outskirts of Fureidis,...
