The ancient Greek city of Pergamon was a major center of culture and learning of the Hellenistic world, standing out for its ...

Dayne Traynor at the 2024 Research Open House. Courtesy of Pratt Communications and Marketing. Ostia Antica was the harbor city of Rome during Antiquity. Located at the mouth of the Tiber River, it ...

In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

The National Museum of Asian Art is presenting “Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings,” the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Anyang, the capital of ancient China’s Shang ...

An ancient city wall dating back at least 2,000 years was discovered in China’s Hubei Province, officials said. Photo from Emile Guillemot, UnSplash Archaeologists recently unearthed an ancient wall ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old statue of the Roman God Hercules at the site of the ancient Greek city of Philippi in Northern Greece. Philippi has long been believed to be one of the ...

Visitors to the Xi'an city wall take pictures in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province, on October 17, 2025. Photos: VCG After more than a month of persistent autumn rain, the gray bricks of Xi'an's Ming ...

ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Two nearly 2,000-year-old tombs with magnificent wall paintings will be open to the public for the first time in southern Israel after a painstaking conservation process, the ...

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Archaeologists recently unearthed an ancient wall that once surrounded a bustling city in the heartlands of China. Large sections of the wall — made from compacted earth — were excavated from the ...