The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and being abandoned. Today, Liternum Archaeological Park is on the outskirts of ...

UNESCO World Heritage Cities preserve history, culture, and architecture, offering a glimpse into the past. Cities like Rome, ...

A $1,500 reward has been offered for tips on the vandalism of ancient petroglyphs at the Volcanic Tableland near Bishop, California. Photo from Bureau of Land Management Ancient petroglyphs ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

In AD90, the site of Corbridge was chosen as a site for a major Roman fort designed to ... After the destruction of the fort, a new fort, still in turf and timber, was quickly built to replace it.

A chance discovery during a solar plant construction project in Almendralejo, Spain, has provided archaeologists with a rare glimpse into the Copper Age. In 2021, workers stumbled upon the remains of ...

Making use of aerial photography which often offers far clearer views of ancient outlines of Roman camps and forts, and exploring landmarks such as standing stones that tell their own stories of ...

Screengrab from video shared by Jim Hansson / VRAK / SMTM But the medieval ship’s most unique feature wasn’t its size or layout. It was its building technique. Wreck 5 was built using a method ...

Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any other in Britain. Occupying nearly 2 hectares of land and standing at a height of up to 3 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds ...

The daily work grind is a routine that can be traced back centuries. People in ancient Rome got up, went to work and did it all over again the next day. But this routine is not the only thing workers ...

The [US’s] Republican system was modelled on that of ancient Rome, but the [Roman] Republic ended up becoming an autocracy, and so in America, there’s always been this anxiety that a ...