The settlement roughly dates back to the transition from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Researchers used noninvasive ...

A solar plant project that began in 2021 in Almendralejo, Spain, took an unexpected turn when workers discovered settlements ...

FORT PICKENS. This fort ... which cannot be obstructed by any fixed fortifications. Once within the gates of the harbor, and an army could be disembarked at any point on the wide bay which ...

The fort was built in 1941 as a coastal fortification designed to defend assets along the Delaware River and Bay such as oil refineries and factories, as well as the city of Philadelphia during World ...

Despite the fortification and artillery used to defend the site, it did not stop the Nazi Luftwaffe successfully hitting Newhaven Fort. On 28 October 1940, nine bombs were dropped on Newhaven Fort ...

The bulwarked fortifications of the town and the outlying Fort of Santa Luzia and Graça and fortlets of São Mamede, São Pedro and São Domingos reflect the evolution of the Dutch system of ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

Built in 1567 by Governor Pedro de Acuña on a sandbank at Cartagena Bay, the Fort of San Matías protected the city from ...

Built between 1672 and 1695 by the Spanish, The Castillo de San Marcos served as a fort for more than 205 years. It's the oldest masonry fortification in the U.S. What is now a picturesque ...

But the newfound fortification is not part of the Great Wall of Qi, either, as that was built later, in around 441 B.C., Yuri Pines, a professor of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of ...