A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

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Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Rome Prize winners. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory ...

Stretching from the heart of Rome into the Italian countryside, the Appian Way is more than just a road—it’s a path through ...

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Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, ...

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(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...

Some commuters in a cosmopolitan European city may be shocked to learn they've been walking over ancient skeletons for many years. Officials in Brussels, Belgium, announced on April 9 that public ...

Through radar scans and artifact finds, archaeologists identified the mystery ruins of Gradishte as a forgotten ancient city. Photo from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Under a ...