The nation of Jordan is currently spearheading a tourism revival in the Middle East. The kingdom has united a group of ...

The 500-year-old clue got them started, but archaeologists needed more modern georadar techniques to finish the job.

The Byzantine Christian settlement has been discovered in Jordan, marked on the Madaba Mosaic Map, the oldest surviving ...

Archaeologists have unearthed Tharais, a mystery Christian settlement in the Middle East that has been hidden away for ...

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

This year's new UNESCO World Heritage Sites include the original Disney castle, a Diamond Mountain in North Korea, and the ...

Long before London installed street lights, Benin City, an ancient Nigerian capital, had already lit its streets with torches and lamps. Here’s the powerful history.

In the U.S., urban planners introduced zoning that called for “setbacks.” They wrote “solar codes” into urban plans. They ...

This paper presents a remote sensing workflow for identifying activities and challenges that threaten past and traditional water management systems. High-resolution imagery and a standardised image ...