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When scholars study the great copper-producing powers of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, they often focus on Cyprus and the Levant.

On the summit of Papoura Mountain in central Crete, archaeologists are investigating a highly unusual circular structure.

he large Neolithic farming community of Çatalhöyük in southern Anatolia has long tantalized archaeologists as a possible example of a matriarchal society.

Metal and stone tools, faience amulets, and limestone statues are thought to have been made in the other rooms in the building.

Researchers say the findings indicate Syedra was not only a regional producer but one of the Mediterranean’s key suppliers in antiquity, challenging earlier assumptions about the city’s economic role.

The Lydian palace was built on an artificial terrace in the capital city of Sardis.

Statues of gods featured prominently throughout the ancient world, but many of those that are best known from literary evidence have never been found.

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The accepted image of the Vikings as fearsome marauders who struck terror in the hearts of their innocent victims has endured for more than 1,000 years.

Over the two-plus years Alice Stevenson has been curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, she has looked at the delicate cream-colored garment hundreds of times, wondering at both the fineness of its workmanship and its extraordina

As soon as you fit the words “Bible” and “history” into the same sentence, people start reacting.

A tower of silence (known also as a ‘dakhma’) is a type of structure used for funerary purposes by adherents of the Zoroastrian faith.

The Kingdom of Benin was an important African kingdom that flourished between the 13th and 19th centuries AD.

In the belief system of the Sumerians, Enki (known also as Ea by the Akkadians and Babylonians) was regarded to be one of the most important deities.