An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history ... to a more accurate depiction of the map of Egypt’s defenses on its eastern borders ...

Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

Photo by Göran Bengtsson Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden ... The remains are believed to be the partial construction of the ...

The Appian Way symbolized the Roman Empire’s might ... For two months, Carnovalini overlaid military maps, ancient shepherd paths, and satellite imagery to plot the Appia’s course.

Yet even through his partial ... Map of Ancient Scythia. Source: Wikipedia Yet the Scythian influence endures in surprising ways. The Sarmatians, their successors, served as cavalry in the Roman ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer ... used by scientists to map objects in the sky.

There’s nowhere quite like Athens. The mix of ancient ruins and modern city life is pretty surreal, and the juxtaposition of ...