Out on the plains of southwestern Iran, rising unexpectedly from the flat landscape, stands one of the most extraordinary monuments to survive from the ancient world: a vast stepped tower

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

Deep in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada, the Tairona city called Teyuna, or Ciudad Perdida, still connects to living Kogi and Wiwa communities who consider it sacred ground today.

Copan in Honduras was a Classic Maya capital famed for its Hieroglyphic Stairway, Altar Q dynasty record, and finely carved sculpture between 426 and 822 CE.

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.

How Cusco became the sacred heart of the Inca Empire, home to Qorikancha’s golden temple, the walls of Sacsayhuaman, and a language still spoken today.

Calakmul ruled the Classic Maya lowlands as the Snake Kingdom, rivaling Tikal for centuries from a jungle capital of over 6,700 structures.

In the middle of the Aegean, ringed by the scattered islands of the Cyclades, lies a small, dry, almost barren island that the ancient Greeks held to be one of

High on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, where two great cliffs called the Phaedriades catch the morning light and throw it down across a valley of silver-green olive trees, the

In the Altai Mountains, a cave preserved evidence of three kinds of humans and revealed the Denisovans from a single finger bone.