Sudan holds more pyramids than Egypt. Meet the kingdom of Kush, its warrior queens, the Black Pharaohs who once ruled Egypt, and the steep desert pyramids of Meroë.

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On the Oka River, Old Ryazan was a wealthy Kievan Rus capital of churches and treasures, until the Mongol invasion of 1237 destroyed it in one of Russia’s great tragedies.

Long before the pyramids, long before Stonehenge, and by some estimates as much as six thousand six hundred years ago, the Gunditjmara people of southeastern Australia were already engineering channels,

An old garment from the “Omaha” Indians living in northeastern Nebraska. This garment, made of leather, silk, beads and bones, is decorated with a crescent and a star. Since they

April Fools’ Day In 1564, King of France IX Charles started the year on the first day of January. Earlier The start of the year, common in Europe, was March

Near Trujillo, Peru, Huaca del Sol was torn apart by Spanish treasure hunters while its twin, Huaca de la Luna, survived intact under centuries of deliberate temple burial.

The Yada Stone, which has been in the American Metropolitan Museum since 1900 and is said to have been brought from Siberia. The West’s naming of “Siberia” is the cover

Every great city needs a door to the sea, and for a thousand years the door of Rome was Ostia. At the mouth of the river Tiber, where its yellow

Pachacamac’s earthquake god and oracle were so respected that the Wari, Ychsma, and Inca all chose to preserve the site rather than replace it.