Although Xi’an in China is best known for the Terracotta Army discovered on its outskirts, the Shaanxi province city was originally built inside a 8.5-mile city wall
The Pula Arena, situated in the coastal Croatian city that bears its name, is stunningly picturesque thanks to its entire circumference being mostly intact.
In the middle of a busy French city is one of the best-preserved Roman buildings in the world. The 85-foot long Maison Carrée was a temple dedicated to Gaius Caesar and Lucius Caesar
On the outskirts of the modern Jordanian city of Jerash is an older settlement that’s around 2,000 years old. In its prime, it was bustling with up to 20,000 inhabitants.
Naturally, Rome has many relics dating from when it was the center of an empire that ruled much of the Mediterranean.
Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec Empire, and the Templo Mayor was its heart – a heart that literally dripped with the blood of victims who were sacrificed to the gods on altars at the top of its steps.
When archaeologists excavated the site of a new building in London's financial district, they discovered that some Roman Londoners worshipped a rather unusual god
On the outskirts of Aswan (southern Egypt) are stone quarries that have been dug since antiquity. We know this for certain because one mammoth stone was never fully quarried.