At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction. In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment.

As the popular funfair's returns to Newcastle's Town Moor we look through The Hoppings history books to see how it got its ...

A Sarmatian necropolis nearly 2,000 years old was discovered after archaeological excavations were carried out at the Mehala ...

Unearthed in Egypt's Tarkhan Cemetery, the Tarkhan Dress, dating back to 3482-3102 BC, stands as the oldest known tailored ...

An extraordinary discovery from the ancient world has been making waves in the archaeological community. TheTarkhan Dress, ...

New recognised roles - particularly in culture and tourism - have been touted as helping fill employment gaps, but opinions ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

It is unusual for a brand only a few weeks old to show at London Fashion Week, but for Tinka Weener, the mind behind Songs of ...

Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

Ancient Plants May Show the Site of Jesus’s Tomb; Biblical tradition holds that Herod I, who ruled from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C., ordered the death of all male babies in Bethlehem, ...

Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old.