The two mile long wall was built around the ancient city of Uxmal—located in the Yucatan Peninsula—in order to protect the elite from invaders, according to Jose Huchim Herrera, the director ...

The walls are still there today, but now this enchanting city welcomes tourists. And if you want to get inside the ancient fortress, all you need is a ticket that costs less than $2. Nobody knows ...

The ancient city was used for centuries before it was abandoned in the 1920s. A local man rediscovered it in 1963 when he went looking for his lost chickens behind a wall. Stretching 280 feet ...

said to be one of the world’s most impressive remaining traditional defense systems and one of the only complete ancient city walls left in China. The 13-kilometer-long fortification ...

As Rome prepares to celebrate its official 2,767th birthday, archeologists believe they have unearthed fresh secrets about the ancient city. They claim the discovery of a boundary wall of the ...