For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was thought to be a vast, untouched wilderness, inhabited only by scattered ...

Established in the 3rd century BC, it was originally the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania before being integrated into the vast Roman Empire. At its peak, Volubilis was home to around 20,000 ...

In the early Middle Ages, it became the capital of the Exarchate of Italy, a district of the Eastern Roman Empire under the ... artistry of mosaic art at its peak. The mosaics of Ravenna, in ...

The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

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By measuring how the light is bent, astronomers can reverse-engineer a map of dark matter’s ... What makes up this invisible empire? Rubin will test its systems throughout most of 2025 and ...

(The Roman army, at its peak, was just less than half a million ... Canada and the Gaza Strip is empire-building of the crudest sort. If he gets away with that, it’s back to the old ways again.

CC BY 2.0/flickr Togas and tunics were the fashion in ancient Rome for both men and women, but the Roman Empire covered a large area of the map. Thus, conquered cultures ... spanning around two ...

Empires used to be obvious: maps marked in red, purple togas ... Modern America is so sophisticated as to lack any traditional empire at all: no colonies and no tribute. Unsurprisingly, many Americans ...

Italy isn’t the only place with awe-inspiring ruins from the Roman Empire. Avoid the crowds and see the broader picture of ...

Excavations across the ancient city of Perga revealed five new statue finds from as far back as the second century A.D. The ...