On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The UNESCO World Heritage site ... with trilingual inscriptions in Greek, Sabena, and what was then the local language, Ge'ez. Although much is gone among the ruins of this sanctuary-including ...

Incredibly, some of the best preserved Greek temples in the world stand in this little-known ... looked like 2,400 years ago. The grounds around these shrines are littered with ancient stonework ...

On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to be an abandoned, run-down castle. Others ...

Located in Agrigento in southwest Sicily, this more than 2,000-acre archeological site dates back to the sixth century B.C. and includes the remains of numerous Greek temples. A highlight is the ...

One archaeologist explored the still-visible ruins around 1850 and interpreted it as a Roman military fort, but later researchers who tried confirming this theory left the site still uncertain of ...