Construction work on a railway in central Athens has revealed what could be the Altar of the Twelve Gods, which marked the center of the ancient city. “Thucydides mentions only a handful of monuments in his historical works. Of these, even fewer have actually been found and they are located in the archaeological sites surrounded […]

A small limestone statue of Akhenaten has reportedly been recovered and returned to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. A new study of the 28-foot-high Neolithic tower at the site of Tel Jericho supports the idea that it was built to align with a nearby mountain and the sunset on the longest day of the year. […]