One of the oldest known maps of an ancient city has recently been brought into sharper focus thanks to new insights and technology. Discovered over a century ago in the ruins of Nippur, this ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Archaeologists no longer have to excavate buried cities to find out what they look like. A group of Belgian and UK researchers recently mapped the entire ancient city of Falerii Novi, about 30 miles ...