A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

A recent MIT-led study reveals that Roman concrete’s strength comes from volcanic ash, lime clasts, and hot mixing, giving it self-healing powers that modern cement lacks.

When future historians come to write of our era, they will write of all the miracles but they will also discover another ...

There is a stunning country in Asia that travellers consider better to visit than Spain or Greece but there are a few things ...

Come with me as I enjoy Lebanese food in the ancient city of Baalbek, Lebanon! By now ... of the best places in the world to see ancient Roman temples. The area has been inhabited for thousands ...

After climbing the seating, we drove to one of the longest public beaches in Lebanon ... the Sea Temple. We had the entire site to ourselves! Further on were the sea and ancient Roman baths ...

Authorities in Brazil issued an arrest warrant for a policeman who murdered a Spanish Jesuit missionary 38 years ago.

Archaeologists searching for a rumored Roman estate in Neckargartach unearthed an ancient Roman highway and roadside town with a temple. Photo from Matthias Göden, LAD/ArchaeoConnect GmbH A ...

Debris from an Israeli strike that destroyed a hotel and shop near ancient Roman temples to Venus, Jupiter and Bacchus in Baalbek, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in eastern Lebanon. The same is true ...

The country is home to thousands of years’ worth of antiquities. Some have already been damaged or destroyed in the war, alarming the conservationists trying to protect them. By Euan Ward Euan ...

The blast from the Israeli bomb that landed near the entrance to Baalbek’s Roman ... the ancient city. When cross-border hostilities broke out between Israel and Hizbollah in southern Lebanon ...

We are the keepers of the story of humanity,” she told NBC News, speaking at the ancient port city of Byblos in northern Lebanon. Near a 4,000-year-old temple site, Zaven sat on a Roman column ...