In the Gobi Desert Region of Mongolia, One of the Largest Deserts in the World, Archaeological Documents Witnessing the Cultural Connections between the Altai and the Gobi were Retrieved during

At the mouth of the Aura river, where it meets the Baltic on the southwestern coast of Finland, stands the oldest and greatest of all Finnish castles. Turku Castle, Turun

Tushpa, the ancient Urartian capital known today as Van Fortress, rises on a rock above Lake Van in eastern Turkey, its citadel carved from stone nearly three thousand years ago.

Hidden in the woodlands of northeastern Louisiana stands one of the most quietly astonishing monuments in the Americas, a place that forced archaeologists to rewrite what they thought they knew

Choquequirao, Machu Picchu’s remote sister site, hides llama-shaped terraces and ruins that only a demanding two-day trek can reach.

In the deserts of southern Iraq rise the ruins of Ur, one of the oldest cities in the world and a great capital of the Sumerians, the people who invented

On the shore of the most famous stretch of water in Scotland, perhaps in the world, stand the broken walls of Urquhart Castle. Below them lie the deep, dark, cold

In the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, the Sumerians built the world’s first true cities and invented writing around 5,000 years ago. This is where history itself begins — inside Uruk.

In the deserts of southern Iraq lie the ruins of Uruk, which has a strong claim to be the first true city in human history. Around five thousand years ago

Uxmal rose in Yucatan’s dry Puuc hills, where Maya builders raised mosaic palaces and a rounded pyramid despite having no permanent water source.