About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began ...
In 160 years of digging at Troy, nobody had found anything you could play. Archaeologists have pulled walls, gates, jewelry, ...
Roman Spain had a network of official roadside stops for officials, soldiers and couriers, yet archaeologists know very few ...
A dig beside the famous Greek temples of Agrigento, in Sicily, has uncovered a previously unknown neighborhood of the ancient city of Akragas, with walls that collapsed when Carthage besieged it in ...
In AD 52, Emperor Claudius staged a naval battle with condemned prisoners to celebrate a tunnel that 30,000 workers had dug through a mountain by hand. The tunnel only half worked, and Lake Fucino was ...
A team excavating Augusta Raurica, a Roman colony near Basel in Switzerland, has unearthed a complete iron window grille 1.7 meters (5 ft 7 in) underground, with five bars and two nails still in place ...
Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the ...
In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is ...
On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.
From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone ...
Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, ...
Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils ...
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