High on the sheer limestone face of the Zagros Mountains, a king’s voice is frozen in stone. This is the Behistun Inscription, carved by the command of…
On the wild edge of Northern California, where the Pacific breathes its salt-laden breath onto the land, the sandstone reveals its secret life. This is not a…
In a wooden chest near Siena, time has preserved the humble seeds of an empire. These are not coins, but their ancestors: aes rude, rough, broken lumps of…
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced on December 11 that archaeologists had recently discovered and excavated a rare bust of the famous ancient King Ramses II near…