Nearby, there’s the imposing outer wall of the bouleuterion or assembly house that would’ve been the city’s seat of power, another central agora dating back to pre-Roman times and the ruins ...

At its height, the city was home to some 25,000 people. “It was the largest city anywhere in the Western Hemisphere before the 1400s,” archaeologist George Cowgill says.

Large, ancient wall discovered in central China, officials said. It dates back over 2,000 years and once surrounded bustling city.

Archaeologists have found traces of hundreds of orchards and gardens within the bounds of the ancient city. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered Pompeii in ash and rock.

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Rare Ancient Roman Wall Paintings in Israeli Seaside City Will Go on View The painstakingly restored wall paintings feature Greek mythological characters such as Demeter and the Medusa.

A tourist was detained in Italy over the weekend when he was caught carving his name into a wall in the ancient city of Pompeii — and he’s been ordered to pay for its restoration, officials said.

The shrill sound of cicadas filled the hot and heavy air. Prag and his colleague Michela Costanzi, a professor of ancient history and archaeology at the University of Amiens in France, were headed up ...

The ancient city was besieged and destroyed in 125 B.C., probably in a dispute over the rights of Roman citizenship. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The ancient city of Gabala creates a cityscape that combines ancient world architecture with local architecture. Along with oval buildings, which are rare for the region, the presence of a large ...

As Israel intensified attacks in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, residents fled to an ancient Roman temple, hoping the site’s UNESCO status might save them.

In the 1950s, botanist Wilhelmina Jashemski identified traces of pollen, spores and plant fossils in the ancient city of Pompeii. The discovery suggested that the site had once been a lush ...