Part of a road in Cyprus collapsed, revealing a long-forgotten tomb from about 2,000 years ago, officials said. Photos show its artifacts. Photo from the Department of Antiquities and Museums of the ...

The construction of the Telford Way Bridge in 1964, nearly 40 years after the widening of the English Bridge and replacement ...

Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...

ANKARA, June 27. /TASS/. Turkish Minister of Trade Omer Bolat announced that during the session of the Joint Russian-Turkish Intergovernmental Commission held in Moscow, the two sides discussed the ...

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

Gutsy, ambitious and colourful at every turn, Alice Murphy discovers that Georgia's ancient capital is many things at once.

Alexandra Gerasimova, curator of the exhibition, told mos.ru about how the Empress worked, spent her leisure time and what important reforms she adopted during her reign.

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

The ancient Romans left an indelible imprint on the world they enveloped into their empire. The straight, long-distance roads they built can still be followed beneath the asphalt of some modern ...

Nor was China, the alleged terminus of the Silk Roads in most versions of its conception, ever the main destination of east-west trade in ancient or early medieval times. Indeed, the Roman empire and ...

The Silk Roads evoke the east: Xi’an, Tibet, Mongolia. They suggest the fabled and the fabulous: Xanadu, Shangri-La. For ...