The colossal rock-cut Ad Deir Monastery facade in Petra, Jordan, stands against a dramatic sunset sky. Its intricate sandstone architecture dominates the rugged, arid landscape. (ChiemSeherin/Pixabay) ...

Archaeologists found armor, Greek marble, 18 burials, and evidence of the site’s later conversion into an Islamic center.

Nestled in the lush valleys of northern Jordan, just a short journey from Amman, lies one of the most spectacularly preserved Roman provincial cities in the world: Jerash. Known in antiquity as Gerasa ...

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Prussia was undoubtedly one of the most important actors in Europe’s Early- and Late Modern periods. It has a fascinating history and geographically and politically, up until the early 18th century, ...

Ancient Roman forces may have used the polybolos to quell a rebellion at Pompeii in 89 B.C.E. The unique weapon was likely ...

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In 1847 a few poor labourers living near Kottayam, a city in what is now the Indian state of Kerala, stumbled upon a hoard of gold coins. They exchanged these for a day’s worth of rice or a few rupees ...

Professor Nicholas Epley has spent his career exploring a paradox at the heart of social life: humans have evolved to connect and cooperate, doing so consistently makes us happier and healthier, yet ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

The anthropologist embarks on a journey by train visiting key sites of the Roman empire. Alice begins her Roman tour at Pompeii, where she explores ingenious Roman engineering, racy artworks, the role ...

Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the end of a lavish Roman lifestyle in Britain. But new radiocarbon dating of a finely crafted ...