Tell Brak: The Syrian Mound That May Rewrite Where Cities Began
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.
Templo Mayor: The Aztec Great Pyramid at the Center of the World
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.
Teotihuacán: The Pyramid of the Sun and the Lost City of the Gods
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.
Teotihuacan’s Builders Never Told Us Who They Were
Teotihuacan once housed 100,000 people and shaped religion across Mesoamerica, yet its builders left no name, no language, and no known ruler.
Tepe Sialk: The 7,000-Year-Old Mound Where Iran’s History Begins
On the outskirts of Kashan, an old oasis city on the edge of the great central desert of Iran, rises a weathered mound crowned by the eroded remains of a
The African Capital That Rivaled the Pharaohs: The Story of Kerma
Far south of the pharaohs, on the banks of the Nile in Sudan, rose one of Africa’s earliest great cities, a Nubian capital powerful enough to rival Egypt itself, crowned
The Belle Époque and the War That Ended It
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
The Black Death: The Two Years That Remade England
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
The Bulgarian Mound That Became the Master Clock of European Prehistory: The Story of Karanovo
A mound in central Bulgaria records over 3,000 years of continuous village life, and gives its name to the chronology of the Balkans.
