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

New research reveals the Gobi Wall was more than a medieval defense—uncovering its role as a strategic tool of control for ...

Older, narrower parts of this ancient fortification are made of packed ... part of the newly discovered segment of wall—built from yellow earth strengthened with metal rammers—aligns with ...

The Great Wall wasn’t the first fortification erected in Chinese territory ... crafted from unremarkable building materials like earth and stone. More interestingly, glutinous rice—known ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

After initial test excavations, the team returned to discover that the autumnal landscape had revealed additional fortification walls and stone structures far beyond the inner fortress they’d ...

Related: 1,700-year-old Roman fort discovered in Germany was built to keep out barbarians As for the newfound wall, "This barrier can be identified as the enclosure/fortification wall erected by ...

The arc-shaped stone fortification system, which the researchers described as a "mighty wall," is 820 feet (250 ... director of the Earth Science Museum Laboratory of Ustica, which is associated ...

SWAT: The international archaeologists and conservationists said here on Sunday that the north-eastern fortification wall of Bazira city would be completely conserved through scientific techniques ...