Learn more about the Mongolian Arc, a section of medieval wall that is changing how we understand the ancient populations of ...

The Great Wall of China is the best-known strip of fortifications in East Asia, if not the world. But just a few days’ horse ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Islamic State militants have taken near complete control of the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to some of the world's most magnificent ancient ruins. There are fears that the militants will destroy ...

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire ...

Archaeologists have excavated a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia, suggesting some monumental walls on the Eurasian ...

In addition, the historical evolution can be traced in representative buildings of other important periods of history, such as the reinforced walls of the Visigoth era, the Paleo-Christian basilicas ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Long Zhen, director of the Jinyang Ancient City Research Institute of the Taiyuan Cultural Relics Protection Research Institute, says, according to a translation from the state-run news outlet ...

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were found guilty by a Newcastle Crown Court jury of two counts each of criminal damage for felling the tree and toppling it onto the ancient Hadrian's Wall.

“In all of recorded history,” she writes, “you’d be hard-pressed to find a single example of human beings trading in high-value goods without an effective means of communication.