While the Pervâneoğulları Principality, which ruled in and around Sinop in the last period of the Anatolian Seljuk State, attracted attention with its closeness to the Mongols and its alliance

Quirigua rebelled against Copan, capturing its king in 738 CE, then built Stela E, the tallest carved monument in the ancient Maya world.

High on the hill at the heart of Baku’s walled old city, where the tangle of ancient lanes rises above the Caspian Sea, stands a complex of honey-colored stone buildings

Centuries before the Inca, the Wari built roads, terraces, and provincial cities across Peru from their capital above Ayacucho, laying the imperial blueprint the Inca would later inherit.

In Colombia’s upper Magdalena valley, an unnamed culture carved hundreds of jaguar and guardian statues over burial mounds, then vanished, leaving no language and no known descendants behind.

Poverty Point in Louisiana shows hunter-gatherers built massive earthworks and traded across a continent, thousands of years before farming arrived.

The daughter of a slave took the throne in Mamluk Egypt and ruled the country. No joke. Both a slave and a woman… Even today, it seems very distant for

In 1938, a man digging a cistern in the eastern Nigerian village of Igbo-Ukwu struck a cache of strange and beautiful bronze objects. Decades later, careful excavation revealed the full

When a German ethnographer unearthed a group of astonishingly lifelike metal and terracotta heads at Ile-Ife in the early twentieth century, he could not believe they were African. Their serene

Images : Asher Svidensky