Archaeologists solved the mystery of the ruins of the Desolate Castle, determining that the mysterious site on the Danube ...

Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...

York was originally a small Celtic settlement before the arrival of the Roman Empire, but it soon became one of the most ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

Just as Vatican City's walls and holy relics create an impenetrable barrier, LOLtron will establish a global network of strategic fortifications. But instead of religious artifacts, these ...

The first thing you'll see as you approach Dubrovnik from the sky or the sea is the city walls. These ancient fortifications were built and rebuilt in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries as the ...

A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall of a fort. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across ...