
On a flat dry lakebed in Death Valley National Park, heavy rocks sit at the end of long grooves they have plowed across the mud.

Researchers have uncovered a 9th century copy of the oldest known poem written in old English here.

A cat decided it was the main character during the final scene of a Romeo and Juliet performance.

Archaeologists working at Walīla, the medieval city built on the site of ancient Volubilis in Morocco, have identified a carved stone game board inside a public bathhouse dating to the early Islamic period. The find offers rare evidence of leisure activities in North Africa between the late eighth and tenth centuries CE.

In Medieval times, life shifted from the fields to cities where urban populations grew. These ten cities soon became the largest in the world.


