Mural artist Patrick Vale was commissioned by the owner of the Lits building on 8th and Market Streets to create a mural representing the city of Philadelphia.

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Sonja Dümpelmann is a historian of landscapes and the built environment who lived in Philly from 2019 to 2023. During this time, she researched how female reformers and activists in Philadelphia in ...

The Nile Delta and most of Egypt north of Abydos were ruled at this time by the Hyksos—a foreign dynasty from the East—while most of the south was ruled by pharaohs from the ancient city of ...

Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees.

Until I visited Philadelphia I had never registered that this is really where the United States of America happened. The ...

This Easter weekend , the world lost Pope Francis after a period of ailing health. On March 23 , the Pope was released from ...

Find out what to see, when to go, and how to plan your visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art—featuring top exhibits, tips, ...

While renovating his home, he stumbled upon a tunnel that led to the ancient city. Inside, archaeologists found a huge network of narrow tunnels, small rooms and cleverly designed defences.