Pachacamac’s earthquake god and oracle were so respected that the Wari, Ychsma, and Inca all chose to preserve the site rather than replace it.

In the far south of India stands Padmanabhapuram, the largest wooden palace in Asia, the ancient capital of Travancore, whose kings ruled as servants of their god.

In a broad coastal plain south of the Bay of Naples stand three of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere in the world, and they are not in Greece at all.

In the far west of Ukraine, in the beautiful region of Transcarpathia beyond the great arc of the Carpathian mountains, a mighty medieval castle crowns a lone hill rising abruptly

At Micronesia’s western gate, where three seas meet over the richest reefs on earth, lies an archipelago whose people built village-states with painted parliaments, ran their economy on ancient bead

On the large island that lies south of the Australian mainland, a place the world knows as Tasmania and whose people call it lutruwita, live the Palawa, the Aboriginal Tasmanians.

On the southern bank of the river Arno in Florence, its vast rusticated facade rising like a cliff of golden stone above a sloping piazza, stands one of the most

Where the flat plains of the Gulf coast meet the first forested hills of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Maya city of Palenque nestles against a green mountainside, its white

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In the middle of the Syrian desert, far from any coast, a forest of stone columns rises from the sand. This is Palmyra, an ancient caravan city that grew fabulously