Many thousands of people welcomed the summer in Porto the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by ...

Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Alla Al-Marjani/Reuters/GTRES. By Antonio Ratti. April 24, 2025.

The city, named for the Assyrian king who built it, was founded in the 13th century B.C. Emily Garthwaite / INSTITUTE A loose stone at Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, inscribed with cuneiform.

An eruption of Mount Vesuvius (background) in A.D. 79 buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under volcanic ash and rock. The World Heritage site is now the scene of an ambitious restoration ...