Shimao, an ancient city, epitomizes this phase of state civilization. Shimao, alongside the Liangzhu Culture (3300–2300 BC) and the Longshan Culture (2500–1500 BC) ...

The ancient city of Constantinople sprawls across two continents, and in 1930 it was renamed Istanbul. The Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Statue in Gulhane Park, Istanbul, Turkey.

Archaeologists believe they’ve found the city of Lyncus. In the 7th century BCE, Lyncus was the capital city of Lyncestis, founded in the northernmost mountain region of Upper Macedonia.

Archaeologists recently discovered an ancient "city of the dead" in Italy, dating back nearly 3,000 years. The Italian province of Trentino said in a news release that a "monumental necropolis ...

Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest ...

Youths from the US state of Idaho take photos with Chinese tourists in traditional clothings, at the UNESCO World Heritage site Ancient City of Pingyao, in Jinzhong, North China's Shanxi province ...

The ancient site is shrouded in dust and rocks and silence. Yet, after 4,300 years, one of the world’s oldest cities is no longer lost to history, no longer abandoned.

There on a ridge is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 19th century, long identified as the core of the ancient city of Jerusalem. It made a certain sense that David’s palace, ...

The Ancient City Gorondia is a series of side quests in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.While this quest sounds grand in name, the objective is to help a Goron Child traverse using the functional mine ...