One woman's facial skin was painfully stretched.These photos show the partially mummified remains of the woman whose face was mutilated. Notice how the skin around her mouth was pulled upward.(Image credit: Standen V.G. et al. Journal of Anthropological A

More recently than you might think.The Blue Mosque in Istanbul. The city was captured by the Ottomans in 1453, but when did its name change from Constantinople?(Image credit: Nikada via Getty Images)Istanbul is a rare place. It's the only city to straddle

While many date the collapse of the Roman Empire to the fifth century, in reality it didn't fall until AD 1453.Statue of the first leader of the Roman Empire, Augustus(Image credit: Getty / Print Collector)The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C., when Octavian,

The man suffered cuts and slashes to his face during the murder.(Image credit: Photo courtesy Qian Wang)The remains of an ancient 25-year-old man who was discovered in China in a shaft leading to an ancient tomb was not trying to rob it — he was murdered,

The woman may have sacrificed herself for the burial.

The discovery could have just settled a 2,400-year-old debate

His jaw had been shattered in two.

Courtyard of the House of the Diadoumenos, Courtesy of the French School of AthensRare photographs of the excavations at theGreek Island of Delosfrom the 19th Century have come to light in a book by French archaeologists.The book “Delos 1873-1913” sheds l

This grave in France was reopened during the early Middle Ages. Items were removed, and archaeologists are trying to figure out why.(Image credit: éveha-études et valorisations archéologiques Antiquity Publications Ltd.)People living across Europe around

Many of the coins featured military imagery.

The remains of part of the West Bank building are seen here. It was likely used as a reception area for local council members before they ascended to the Temple Mount.(Image credit: Photo courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)Inside the tunnels beneath th

It's one of the biggest Iron Age weapons hoards in western Germany.

The "killed" sword is about 1,600 years old.

Many of the decapitated skeletons had their heads buried like the one shown here.(Image credit: Dave Webb, Cambridge Archaeological Unit)Seventeen decapitated skeletons dating back about 1,700 years have been discovered in three Roman cemeteries at Knobb'

Iron fetters around the skeleton's ankles were secured in the center with a padlock.