As the sun went down, we drove toward Siena’s Piazza Salimbeni, home to the world’s oldest bank ... of South America and Southeast Asia and reveal ancient cities, the tools of geophysics ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey ... most important trade routes in the ancient world, and Troy’s location enabled the city ...

The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment ... Strabo traveled throughout Asia Minor, Rome and western Italy. He ventured up the Nile Valley from Alexandria to Aswan.

Investigators say they have figured out how bronze statues from a shrine built 2,000 years ago in Asia Minor to venerate ... that part of the world, the shrine in the ancient city of Bubon ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

an ancient language of West Asia. The astronomical material was first detected in 2012, when biblical scholar Peter Williams at the University of Cambridge asked his students to study images of ...

The ancient world left a legacy of seven breathtaking ... in what was one of the most important Greek cities in Asia Minor.

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Filippo Monteforte / AFP via Getty Images Rome’s Appian Way, an ancient highway dating to the fourth century B.C.E., has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Also known as the longarum ...

He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site ... what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah. They have tentatively dated the structure ...

Strabo traveled throughout Asia Minor, Rome and western Italy ... When today’s CIA squints at the map, its World Factbook ...