Pope Francis lies in state at St Peter's Basilica which is the centrepiece of the Vatican. Take a look inside the magnificent ...

Ibiza and Formentera have a long, colourful history stretching back thousands of years ... to the Phoenicians from whom they originally descended. In their pantheon, four gods stand out: Melqart, the ...

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

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

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