Some ancient sections of Great Wall of China in Shandong Province south of Beijing are 300 years older than previously ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery that appears to confirm the biblical account of King Josiah's death at ...

The cylinder takes its name from him. Nineveh had served as the capital of the Assyrian Empire during King Ashurbanipal’s reign in the 7th century BC. However, the city was sacked and destroyed after ...

In the 14th Century BC, the Hittite Code also prescribed the death penalty. The 7th Century BC Draconian Code of Athens made death the penalty for every crime committed. In the 5th Century BC ...

According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides, it was the Corinthians who first developed the trireme, possibly as early as the 7th century BC. (1.12.4 - 13.2) They in turn based their ...

It was believed that the largest portions of the first walls were constructed around the 7th century BC and joined together under the Qin dynasty around the third century BC. However, new ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...