A once-domed 10th-century reception hall with an octagon-shaped pool at the center was part of the hammam in Aghmat.(Sara Toth Stub) Fifteen years ago, retired archaeologist Ronald Messier, who ...

DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and declassified images taken by American spy satellites ...

MAGELANG, INDONESIA—Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and their colleagues developed a neural ...

In the very early years of the twentieth century, the Stobs Military Camp served as a training ground and living quarters. Just before World War I, it was the place where Scotland readied for combat.

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

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A small crack in a vaulted ceiling led archaeologists to a new room of the Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” the immense pleasure palace built by the emperor Nero after a fire devastated Rome in ...

Glasgow Times reports that volunteers from Clutha Archaeology Group, in collaboration with Archaeology Scotland […] ...

One of the two volcanoes that formed Ometepe Island looms over Nicaragua’s Lake Cocibolca—also known as Lake Nicaragua. The island was at the center of a cultural region known to scholars as ...

New excavations have revealed the wealth and prestige of an ancient center of learning From the start, Augustodunum was a city with a status and appearance befitting the prestige of the Aedui and ...

Plum Bayou Mounds, Arkansas(Will Newton/Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism) A dozen miles southeast of Little Rock, two large mounds rise from the flat Arkansas River floodplain.