Tag: ancient

This summer, the Italian archaeologist Tiziana D’Angelo had a lot on her plate. As the director of the Parchi archeologici ...

Enrico Tosti-Croce was driving in Villarrica, in southern Chile, when he heard on the radio that the Greek government was ...

A stolen Ancient Egyptian statue that turned up at the Tefaf Maastricht art fair three years ago will be handed ...

Ancient Rome reached its apogee under Trajan, emperor from AD98 to AD117. The empire would never be larger than when ...

Less than half an hour northwest of Naples lies the charming coastal town of Pozzuoli, known for its volcanic scenery ...

Mentioned in the sacred texts of all three Abrahamic faiths, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon, in modern-day Iraq, is ...

Artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus off the coast of Alexandria have surfaced for the first time in ...

A 13-year drought may have played a role in the collapse of ancient Maya civilization. By analysing a stalagmite found ...

Six-hundred-year-old stone carvings have been revealed on a beach on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The petroglyphs were found ...

A marble bust dating from the first century CE in the early days of the ancient Roman Empire and believed ...