In southern Brittany, more than 3,000 standing stones march in vast rows across the fields — older than Stonehenge, older than the pyramids, and still unexplained.

In central Turkey, thousands of people once lived in a honeycomb town with no streets, entering their homes through the roof and burying their dead beneath the floor. Meet Çatalhöyük, one of humanity’s first great experiments in living together.

On the desert coast of Peru stands a temple whose walls are lined with hundreds of carved stones showing marching warriors and their dismembered victims. Meet Cerro Sechin, one of the oldest and most haunting monuments in the Americas.

A line of thirteen stone towers in the Peruvian desert forms the oldest known solar observatory in the Americas, tracking the sun across the year with astonishing precision over 2,000 years ago.

Long before the Inca, a temple in the Peruvian Andes used darkness, roaring water, carved monsters, and visions to overwhelm pilgrims. Meet Chavin de Huantar and its fanged god, the Lanzon.

Image: Leonid Plotkin The most spectacular Elikli rock from the rocky area of Cholpan Ata, where every stone is adorned with Scythian – Kun traces. There are many more rock

On the plains of Ukraine, 6,000 years ago, people built planned towns of thousands, made dazzling painted pottery, and burned their whole settlements to the ground every few generations. Meet Cucuteni-Trypillia.

Dholavira, a great city of the Indus Valley Civilization, thrived for 1,500 years in a near-waterless salt desert by mastering the art of harvesting and storing the monsoon — one of the most brilliant feats of ancient water engineering ever found.

These descriptions used in the Ottoman Sailor and Janissary sanjaks have different interpretations. There is a common point where they meet; The first is the analogy with the forked-headed sword

Overshadowed by Newgrange, the 5,000-year-old passage tomb of Dowth is just as ancient and just as mysterious — a brooding mound that still guards its secrets.