A 4,500-year-old circular city has been found in Syria on the banks of the Euphrates, in an area due to be flooded by a dam project.   Traces of the home of a wealthy Roman have been unearthed beneath Marlowe Theater in Canterbury, England. The house dates to the late second or third centuries.   Here’s more […]

 A mural at the Maya site of Calakmul, Mexico, depicts scenes from the lives of ordinary people, and reveals the words for “maize,” and “salt.” “This is the first time that we’ve seen anything like this,” said Simon Martin of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The murals had been protected with a layer of clay […]