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Amicia de Rune standing in front of the ramparts of a Medieval city in the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence.

Part of the Chester City Wall from Northgate to Phoenix Tower - seen from the North. Built between 70 - 80 CE.

Chester City Walls - Spur Wall and Water Tower. Built between 70 - 80 CE.

View on the ruins of the sunken city of Simena in ancient Lycia, modern-day Turkey. Photo provided by Peter Sommer Travels and republished with permission.

This is a modern watercolour sketch of how a Roman city under attack may have looked like.

A contemporary view of the Sicilian hilltop city of Enna, which stand 931 meters (3,054 feet) above sea level.

Ctesiphon was an ancient city and trade center on the east bank of the Tigris River founded during the reign of Mithridates I (the Great, 171-132 BCE). It is best known in the modern day for the single-span arch, Taq Kasra, which is...

This map shows the layout of the Abbasid capital of Baghdad from 767 to 912 CE (it was subjected to changes with time), situated in modern day Iraq. The basic structure was circular.

Alabaster bas-relief depicting a war scene. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Panel 18 (top) of Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

A mosaic floor fragment in a room of a Roman-era villa at Antandros (also known as “Yamaç Ev”) in the ancient Troad, located near modern Altınoluk, Turkey, photograph by Sena Bolek, 2025. The mosaic...