A monetary hoard of more than a hundred coins has just been unearthed on the site of Romes most severe defeat, in Germania. A disaster that put an end to the policy of imperial expansion beyond the Rhine. 1st century CE Roman silver denarii discovered at the site of the Battle of Teutoburg, German
In their day, the Assyrians were one of the greatest superpowers in the Middle East, controlling a landmass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished this feat with military technologies that helped them win any open-air battle or penetrate any fortified city. While airpower and bunker h
Egyptian authorities have announced the discovery of a lost city of the New Kingdom, contemporary to the reign of Amenhotep III, near Luxor, Egypt. The walls of a 3,000-year-old city active during the reigns of Pharaohs Amenhotep III and his son Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) have been discovered near L
In 1959, numerous medieval sarcophagi were discovered in the Basilica of Saint-Denis in Paris, the burial place for centuries of the kings of France. The person in charge of the Parisian archaeological work was, at that time, Michel Fleury, one of the most outstanding French specialists. Upon openi