How the mighty have fallen High on a mountain top in a remote part of south-eastern Turkey, the gods congregate at a…
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The World’s Longest Living Town Today, you will only get a view of Erbil Citadel ‘some four miles away’ from the window…
Our ideas about what a Roman fort should look like are being overturned, or at least being severely challenged, by recent reconstructions…
In the first of a two-part series, Brian Fagan reveals tantalising highlights of the rich and complex history of ancient seafaring. He…
Within hours of stepping ashore, the 19th-century missionaries were dead, their bodies cut up and eaten by local chiefs. Undeterred – or…
Pingyao is an archaeological site with a difference: 30,000 people still live in it.
Once the banking capital of China, it has…
The Temple of Hera at Selinunte is testament to the grandeur of this great Classical settlement. But it is just one of…