On a foggy winter's day, contractors in bright orange protective clothing are hard at work building a ramp from the Grosvenor Shopping Centre car park. It's not for cars though. Instead, the ramp will ...

Archaeologists in China have uncovered ancient city walls in Henan Province, dating back to the early Xia Dynasty (2070–1600 B.C.).

It turns out the Rome we know and love is just around the corner – 15 minutes away, within the city’s ancient walls. But I’m in ‘New Rome’, a bizarre architectural vision of Italy’s ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman basilica underneath the basement of an office block. The basilica was ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city Eli Wizevich History ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history unearthed in the city of London. Archaeologists have found a substantial ...

Other walls of London’s basilica and forum have ... that the people of Londinium were constructing a high-status Roman city. Rebuilding following the British queen Boudica’s revolt had been ...

“This is one of the most significant discoveries made in the City in recent years ... found “massive foundations and walls made of flint, ragstone and roman tile,” in some areas more ...

Unlike some old cities that destroyed their walls entirely, there are still several great places to see the ancient Roman city walls. In particular, much of the southern sections remain.

The latest discovery adds to the traces of Roman London that can be seen around the city, including a section of the ancient wall that once surrounded Londinium, a portion of an amphitheater and a ...

The team found massive foundations and walls made of flint, ragstone and Roman tile. The discovery was ... a construction site in the south of the city in 2022. And last year, archaeologists ...