A mysterious Dead Sea Scroll has sparked a startling new theory tying it to one of the darkest periods in ancient Jewish history. Unlike the other Dead Sea Scrolls, which were written on parchment or ...

For decades, a sealed basement room sat untouched beneath an unremarkable building, its existence known to only a few and its contents to no one. When it was finally opened, investigators stepped into ...

In a city filled to the brim with iconic buildings of both the ancient and not-so-ancient variety, the Colosseum of Rome stands apart from the rest. The ancient stadium, an arched, elliptical arena, ...

A mysterious copper scroll may not be a treasure map at all - but a secret record of one of the bloodiest revolts in ancient Biblical history.

In the middle of the 7th century, a plague swept through the walled city of Jerash, in what is now modern-day Jordan. Ceramicists abandoned their workshops under the Hippodrome, leaving unfired ...