Getting ready for Valentine's Day? Here are a few suggestions from ancient history!

Bab edh-Dhra' is an Early Bronze Age (c. 3200-1950 BCE) site located in the vicinity of the Lisan peninsula, on the plain of the Dead Sea...

Hatshepsut, the daughter of Thutmose I, was one of the most powerful queens of the ancient world, but has often fallen into the shadows...

- Peisistratus the tyrant of Athens A show in the marketplace In modern times, tyrants are understood as being terrible rulers that need...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention The purpose of the convention is to promote and initiate...

One man's death is another woman’s gain Women’s rights to inherit came to Egypt well before the western world decided to give women the...

Wait, do I have the right date?! The celebration of the New year is not a modern phenomenon, but not all New Years celebrations were or...

Saturnalia is generally described as the Roman predecessor to Christmas, but that is not entirely correct. It is really hard to pin down...

An examination of how antiquity lives on in Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical architecture Today, when something is no longer...

- A reaction to the first episode of Ancient Apocalypse I’m on my sofa, several weeks after ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ debuted on Netflix -...

- Has new evidence finally revealed the biggest discovery of the 21st century? Cleopatra VII is perhaps one of the most recognized...

Throughout history different kinds of building techniques and materials have dominated the fashion and knowledge of their time. One of...

Rome began as a kingdom, ruled by kings, until the population became so enraged with the system that they expelled the last king and...

The Trojan War On the shores near Troy, after a decade of war, one day the Greeks simply packed up and left. They loaded up on their...

The decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs is generally attributed to Jean-François Champollion, and particularly the publication...

Herculaneum is an ancient town located close to Naples, Italy, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. It is an UNESCO World Heritage Site, and...

Tell Qaramel is a tell, or mound, located in the northern part of Syria ca 25 km north of Aleppo. The tell lies between the modern...

24 CE, Rome Emperor Tiberius took a long, hard look at the room. It was clear there had been a struggle. Furniture was overturned and...

Here at MENAM Archaeology we want to highlight the small museums that carry a big impact, and the museum of ancient Eleutherna is the...

Welcome back to the Female Nude series! In this article, we are getting down and dirty by analysing the role and progression of museums,...