A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

The project was soon dubbed 'Reviving the Ancient City of Gold' and slowly led to the restoration of this ancient site. It ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

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Somali officials say security forces have ended a 24-hour siege at a hotel in the central city of Beledwyne, leaving an unknown number of people dead, including all the al-Shabab militants who ...

Lechaion, ancient Greece's largest seaport, was the heart of the region's commerce. A new study reveals it may be even older ...

Study the Ancient Languages BA and benefit from world-leading expertise through this degree that incorporates multidisciplinary learning. You’ll learn Hebrew and either Greek or Latin, plus up to ...

Flourishing during the 3 rd millennium BC, this once-powerful city-state rivaled even the might of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Its rediscovery in the 1960s revolutionized our understanding of the ancient ...

Once the capital of Roman Britain, this city has a history stretching back over 2,000 years and is home to one of the country’s most impressive castles. That city is Colchester in Essex.

Tell Qaramel is an archaeological mound located in the north of present-day Syria, 25km from Aleppo. Several circular stone towers were unearthed during excavations of the site by archaeologists.

Residents of Aleppo saved from the oppressive Baathist regime now face a security risk from the takeover of neighborhoods in the Syrian city by the U.S.-backed terrorist group YPG as killings increase ...