On a storm-battered Orkney coast lies a Neolithic village so well preserved you can peer into 5,000-year-old homes, complete with their stone beds and dressers. Meet Skara Brae, older than the pyramids.

In Divan-ı Luğat üt Türk, it is said (an animal of the type of rat, half an cubit long, hunts sparrows through the crevices of the walls, if thrown onto

One of Russia’s oldest towns, Staraya Ladoga was a Viking-era trade hub and, by tradition, an early seat of the Rurik dynasty.

Fourteen centuries before the Aztec ever set eyes on the Valley of Mexico, a people we call the Olmec were already carving stone faces the size of small cars and

Built and rebuilt over many centuries on Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge still guards its secrets. Here is what we actually know about who raised it, how, and why — and the myths worth letting go.

Near Vladimir, 30,000-year-old graves adorned with tens of thousands of ivory beads revealed the astonishing culture of Ice Age hunters.

Some cities live for a few centuries and then fade. Susa lived for thousands of years, rising and falling and rising again through one of the longest continuous histories of

The activities carried out by the Turkish army in Syria as a search for a solution to the social and political problems that have occurred in our region in recent

At the mouth of the Don, the northernmost Greek city traded wine for grain and blended Greeks and Sarmatians for centuries.

On Malta stands Tarxien, the most richly decorated of all the island’s prehistoric temples. With carved spirals, animal reliefs, and a colossal statue, it is a masterpiece of Neolithic art over 5,000 years old.