The first thing you'll see as you approach Dubrovnik from the sky or the sea is the city walls. These ancient fortifications were built and rebuilt in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries as the ...

For instance, the 'square flower' mentioned by local women is derived from the bricks of ancient city walls, symbolizing their memories of wars," Zhang says. "These outward-pointing arrows ...

On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian ... a mysterious mask modeled in hydraulic mortar, embedded in the walls of one of ...

He then decided to knock down the wall and ended up unearthing an entire ancient city which had more than 600 entrances. YouTuber Zack D. Films has since created a simulation of what it would have ...

Archaeologists plan to conduct further excavations inside the city, focusing on a large structure near the ancient theater, where a partially excavated statue of a young woman built into the walls was ...

The "Gate of the Sun" at the ancient city of Tiwanaku, in present-day Bolivia Photo by Mhwater, via Wikimedia Commons Although the source volcano has not yet been identified, the eruption’s ...