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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
Osaka Castle: The Golden Fortress That Rose, Fell, and Rose Again
Some castles are famous for a single dramatic moment, a great siege or a legendary lord, and once you know that one story you feel you have understood the place.
Ostia: Rome’s Great Port, Swallowed by Its Own River
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 Oracle Survived Every Empire That Conquered It
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.
Paestum: Greek Temples in Italy Better Preserved Than Greece’s
In a broad coastal plain south of the Bay of Naples stand three of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere in the world, and they are not in Greece at all.
Palanok Castle: Ukraine’s Fortress on the Volcanic Hill
In the far west of Ukraine, in the beautiful region of Transcarpathia beyond the great arc of the Carpathian mountains, a mighty medieval castle crowns a lone hill rising abruptly
Palazzo Pitti: The Medici’s Vast Renaissance Palace and Its Treasure House of Art
On the southern bank of the river Arno in Florence, its vast rusticated facade rising like a cliff of golden stone above a sloping piazza, stands one of the most
Palenque: The Jade-Masked Tomb of Pakal and the Maya’s Most Graceful City
Where the flat plains of the Gulf coast meet the first forested hills of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Maya city of Palenque nestles against a green mountainside, its white
Palmyra: The Desert Caravan City Whose Queen Dared to Defy Rome
In the middle of the Syrian desert, far from any coast, a forest of stone columns rises from the sand. This is Palmyra, an ancient caravan city that grew fabulously
Panticapaeum: Where Greek Columns Met Scythian Gold
Founded by Milesian settlers on the Kerch Strait, Panticapaeum became the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, a hub of grain trade where Greek and Scythian worlds fused.
