Along the bank of a river in southern France, an ancient people built their settlement. The site was occupied from the Paleolithic era until medieval times, and throughout difficult times in history, ...

In 2021, a Tuscan medieval village will rise out of a lake, under which it has sat submerged since the 1940s, offering travelers to Italy a chance to visit before this ghost town will, once again ...

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Genghis Khan Didn't Bring Down Central Asia's Medieval River Civilizations. ... the region and found that changing hydroclimatic conditions have led to the fall of civilizations around the Aral Sea ...

Lost Medieval Sacristy, ... Likely used between Edward and Henry’s reigns, the stoup, or basin, held holy water for monks to wash their hands in upon entering the abbey.

"It is likely the first time it has completely dried in 600 years, since medieval desiccation associated with diversion of Amu Darya [river] to the Caspian Sea," Philip Micklin, an Aral Sea expert ...