According to legend, this earthen architecture city owes its existence to a magic worm. In the epic poem, Shahnameh, by Persian poet Ferdowsi, a girl was spinning cotton when she discovered a worm ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands ...

Do the true origins of our societies, cultures and cities stretch back far earlier than the history books suggest and perhaps ...

such as the site of Bashbaliq City, the Beauty of Ancient Loulan Castle, the classical music of Muqam, and mulberry paper craftsmanship and other precious cultural heritage. In addition, the western ...

Archeologists thought an excavation site was just a military outpost–but after further study, they realized it was actually an entire ancient city. Artifacts found at the site date the city back ...

“It highlights the complex networks and power structures of ancient Macedonia, especially given the city’s location along trade routes to Constantinople,” Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at ...

Walking through Rome nowadays and seeing the remains of the empire really makes you wonder how the ancient city looked when it was at its peak. In a remarkable collaboration between tech experts ...

Cultural tourism sites like the Loulan Ancient City, Kashgar Ancient City, and the Karez wells in Xinjiang, with their rich history and excellent ecological environments, attract many tourists and ...

People inspect the destruction at the site of an overnight Israeli air attack on the Gouraud Barracks neighbourhood of Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek, in the vicinity of the ancient Roman ruins ...

Researchers have named the new ancient city Valeriana, after a local lagoon. The discovery refutes previous assumptions within scholarly circles that the Tropics were where “civilizations went ...