A great mound in northeastern Syria suggests cities grew up in the north of Mesopotamia just as early as in the famous south, and it left behind thousands of haunting eye idols.

In the heart of Mexico City lie the ruins of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec double pyramid where the universe was said to begin. Its rise, its sacrifices, its fall, and its rediscovery.

An hour from Mexico City stands a giant pyramid built by a people whose name and language are lost. Inside Teotihuacán, the Pyramid of the Sun, and its haunting mysteries.

The Adventure of Turkish Archery | the Huns

There is a French phrase that carries within it both a golden glow and a deep sadness: la Belle Époque, “the Beautiful Era.” It refers to the decades just before

In the summer of 1348 a ship put in at the little Dorset port of Melcombe, near modern Weymouth, and something stepped ashore with the sailors that would kill perhaps

On a Breton headland stands the Cairn of Barnenez, a 75-metre stone monument with eleven burial chambers, raised around 4800 BCE — older than the pyramids and one of Europe’s oldest buildings.

Are China’s pyramids a secret hidden under trees? The real story of the emperors’ earthen tombs, the Terracotta Army, rivers of mercury, and why the greatest tomb stays sealed.

According to the Sumerians’ own king list, kingship itself first descended from heaven at a city called Eridu, but it was Ur, a little further down the Euphrates, that rose

On a cold January morning in 1649, a king of England stepped out onto a scaffold outside his own palace in Whitehall, said a few quiet words, knelt down, and