In the heart of the arid Judean Desert, beneath the gaze of timeworn cliffs and desert heat, sits the city of Jericho, a ...

From grand cathedrals to political buildings, these world-famous landmarks were very nearly lost forever, surviving the ...

Robert Wallis Israel Finkelstein has led the archaeological challenge ... abandoned before 2000 b.c. Even Jericho, where Joshua is said to have brought the walls tumbling down by circling the ...

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire ...

A new study sheds new light on one of the least understood segments of medieval Inner Asian infrastructure: the Gobi Wall.

These archaeological artifacts are so ubiquitous that they have become a geological landform that in turn creates a novel ecological habitat. These walls also are literary icons, historic sites ...

A collapsed wall in a 15th-century Portuguese church revealed at least 12 skeletons, sparking archaeological investigations ...