For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Ancient Greece was never a centralized and united country. It was a network of dispersed city-states, called polis or poleis ...

The Mummy opens with a sweeping shot of pyramids looming over the ancient city of Thebes — a grand cinematic moment that ...

Alexander the Great's vast empire was built upon his keen and continuously changing battle tactics, which depended on the enemy and terrain.

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

Ancient Greece is known for its mythology, which enshrined tales of mighty warriors, here are the finest that Greek mythology ...

The story of the twelve labors tells the tale of Heracles’s journey from a sinful pariah to the ancient world’s most revered ...

This is the untold saga of the world’s greatest military fighting force, made up of 150 pairs of male lovers, whose story has just been uncovered ...

Along the western edge of the forecourt is a portico decorated with battle scenes ... the patron god of Thebes, in this sanctuary. The complex can be seen as both a royal tomb, the cult centre ...

Seqenenre Tao died as a result of wounds received in battle with the Hyksos ... time since her son was too young to rule officially. Thebes needed strong leadership at this moment, and Ahhotep ...

The temple includes depictions of the Battle of Kadesh ... The ancient Egyptians called the temple Mediu or Mediu with Thebes, meaning “united with Thebes,” also known as “The One United ...