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

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

One of the world's earliest city cultures, it thrived circa 2500 BCE in cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Its ...

Explore how this ancient city laid the foundation for modern civilization.

During a renovation project, workers dug for soil samples and stumbled upon a century-old coffin under the school. Take a ...

Amber deposits found in ancient deep-sea sediment may represent one of the oldest records to date of a tsunami, suggests research published in Scientific Reports.The study describes large amber ...

Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city. They sifted carefully ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists.

The Pompeiians’ remains were found in the banquet hall. “The arrival of the first pyroclastic cloud that entered the ancient city or the collapse of parts of the upper floors could then have ...

Transporting Ubisoft’s city-building and strategy series to the ancient era, Anno 117 preserves the fundamentals despite the period setting.