A team of Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a fort dating back millennia in Hosh Issa, uncovering artifacts including a ...
Now, explorers have recovered a piece of that final battle: the bronze battering ram of an ancient warship ... dominance in the Mediterranean. As the Greek historian Polybius later wrote, the ...
Chariots played a prominent role in traditions for different civilisations. In Hindu, Persian and Greek mythologies, some gods are depicted as charioteers. Usually, those are the supreme gods who are ...
The ancient world's secrets stayed buried until a wave of archaeological discoveries in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...
Victorious athletes, for instance, were crowned with wreaths; and nobles wore such wreaths to lavish dinner parties, records from Ancient Greece show.+ Fairest of them all; China; 618-907 CE (Courtesy ...
These artefacts represent way more than just historical objects. The British Empire, at its height, was one of the largest ...
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The Battle of the Egadi Islands (or Aegates Islands) took place in 241 B.C. between the Roman and the Carthaginian navies and marked the end of the First Punic War, according to an Aug. 23 Facebook ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the sword of Ramses II, one of Egypt’s most renowned pharaohs, during recent excavations in ...
More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with ... archaeologists digging up an ancient fort in the area spotted it and cleaned it, finding a shimmering bronze blade with the intricacies ...