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Street view - Chester City, Cheshire, England.

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.

A section of the Roman city-wall of Empuries (Emporiae), Spain. 1st century BCE. The base of the wall was made using calcareous rock while the upper portion is of Roman concrete (opus caementicium).

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.

Selinus (or Selinous, modern: Selinunte), located on the south-west coast of Sicily, was founded in the mid-7th century BCE by Greek colonists from Megara Hyblaea on the eastern side of the island. Selinus was the most western Greek...

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...

Artist's impression of a battle during a siege in the Middle Ages or Late Antiquity.