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A colony of the Greeks of Thera, Cyrene was one of the principal cities in the Hellenic world. It was Romanized and remained a great capital until the earthquake of 365. A thousand years of history is written into its ruins, which have been...

Meroë is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum, Sudan. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries. The site of the city of Meroë is marked by more than two hundred pyramids...

Leptis Magna was enlarged and embellished by Septimius Severus, who was born there and later became emperor. It was one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman Empire, with its imposing public monuments, harbour, market-place, storehouses...

Take a tour of Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna in Al-Hums, Libya — part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats. Buried under the desert sands of what is now Libya, the city of Leptis Magna lay forgotten...

Ferries to Tunisia: http://ferriestunisia.com/ Dougga or Thugga (Arabic: دقة‎) is an ancient Roman city in northern Tunisia, included in a 65 hectare archaeological site. UNESCO qualified Dougga as a World Heritage Site in 1997, believing...

A view around Clava Cairns from the DJI Phantom.

Welcome to In Focus. In this series we take a closer look at particular sites, finds and objects from the world of Archaeology.

At Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland, a Neolithic farmstead may be the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe. Radiocarbon dating shows that it was occupied from 3700 BC to 2800 BC, earlier than the...

The chambered tomb of Maeshowe is in The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. Along with the Standing Stones of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar, the Barnhouse settlement and Skara Brae prehistoric village, it allows visitors to understand...

The Poulnabrone Portal Tomb is one of the oldest Neolithic memorials to human history in the Burren, a moonlike limestone landscape situated in Ballyallaban, Baile Alboin, in midwestern Ireland.