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The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

The exhibit allows people to walk through recently destroyed ancient Arab sites. The Temple of Baalshamin -- destroyed in 2015 by the Islamic State -- has been restored inside a Washington gallery. At ...

Founded, furnished and eventually forgotten – this has been the fate of many cities since ancient times. A few names have stayed alive in legend and literature while others disappeared completely – ...

In the plains of Thailand, a long road bordered by rice paddies links Sukhothaï, Si Satchanalai and Kamphaeng Phet. On this ...

The Kunguints site in the Upano Valley is similar in size to the Giza Plateau and was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago - Antoine Dorison/Stephen Rostain Scientists have ...

Today’s cities are a continuation of what’s been learned thousands of years ago. Ancient cities presented opportunities that modern cities have copied. Everything from government and administrative ...