There is a field in Surrey, flat and a little soggy, where the Thames loops lazily past on its way to London. On most days nothing happens there at all.

Mahmud of Ghazni, the first Turkish ruler to use the title of Sultan, is also the commander who honored India with Islam. It is no wonder that the sultan, who

El Castillo at Chichén Itzá is a calendar carved in stone that summons a serpent of light twice a year. A look inside the brilliant world of Maya pyramids and how they differ from Egypt.

Before Mohenjo-daro or Harappa, there was Mehrgarh: a 9,000-year-old village in Pakistan where people first farmed, made pottery, worked copper, and even practiced dentistry.

On Malta’s southern coast stand the temples of Mnajdra, over 5,000 years old. One is aligned so precisely with the sun that it marks the equinoxes and solstices, turning stone into an ancient calendar.

Mohenjo-daro, one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, had grid streets, covered drains, and clean water more than 4,000 years ago — yet we still cannot read a single word its people wrote.

From what we see in our Pazyryk findings, until today, the Chuvash Turks have also used and continue to use the rugs and rock beds used by the Turks. Not

On a flooding reef off Pohnpei, Pacific islanders raised a stone city of 92 artificial islets and 750,000 tonnes of basalt. Meet Nan Madol, the astonishing “Venice of the Pacific.”

Few human lives have bent the course of history as sharply as that of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the space of barely twenty years, an obscure young officer from the island

Nardugan is a New Year holiday in old Turks. Pomegranate sun, dugan, tugan rising nardugan rising sun means “the rebirth of the sun” in Turks. Nardugan is celebrated every year