The internet and a new film have breathed life into old conspiracy theories about one of the world’s most famous landmarks.

From forgotten coins triggering endless metal detector loops to archaeological excavations of carry-ons packed since 1987, ...

In From Neutrality to Bias: Wikipedia’s Quiet War on Israel, I described how Wikipedia was once celebrated as humanity’s ...

By Martin EjidikeReports that an approved junior secondary school history textbook in Nigeria, ”Living History for Junior Secondary Schools”, contains no substantive reference to the Igbo as an ethnic ...

Imagine the bustle of a central street at dusk. The sound of conversation, the clinking of glasses, the smell of meat ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist, was in Turkey in the late 19th century on an eccentric quest. He was excavating a tell—an artificial mound that covers long abandoned settlements. The ...

Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...