THE WINDOW framed the blush of a new day as the plane descended into Istanbul. Returning to Türkiye for a fourth time did not diminish the enigma and romance of the only country nestled between two ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

From Halley's Comet Panic to impending war in Europe, the Edwardian era is far more fascinating than people realise and just ...

Excavations at Satala in northeastern Turkey have unearthed a bronze bust depicting Isis, an ancient Egyptian goddess whose cult spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

We imagine the students will shout and murmur over these walls where hang most of the seeds of Modernism. Never before has there been gathered in this country so vast a display. Certainly there are ...

Bridges, both big and small, are one of the most visually striking pieces of infrastructure. As the following examples ...

The apparent calm of the turquoise waters of Gan Ha-Shelosha National Park hides, beneath its surface, the architecture of a ...

Scattered throughout this stone wonderland are castles that would make any fairy tale princess consider downsizing. Complete with turrets, drawbridges, and moats (sometimes filled with actual water ...

A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

As much as I love laying out infrastructure and planning traffic routes, when I think back to the best city builders in history, from SimCity 2000 through to Cities Skylines, it's the times things ...

Archaeologists recover fifteen Roman tablets from flooded wells, completely intact with visible writing, along with other everyday objects.

Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 150, totalling almost ...