Sometime around the middle of the second millennium BC, on a prosperous island in the southern Aegean, a town died in fire and ash. Its people had already fled, warned

Alacahoyuk is an ancient mound in central Turkey where Early Bronze Age royal tombs full of gold and bronze standards sit beneath a Hittite sphinx gate.

Discover Alalakh, the Bronze Age city near Antakya whose royal archives, King Idrimi statue, and Aegean-style frescoes reveal Near Eastern history.

On a clifftop in southern Sweden, fifty-nine great boulders form a 67-metre ship of stone — the grandest of Scandinavia’s enigmatic Iron Age stone ships.

On a hillside near Évora in Portugal stands the Almendres Cromlech, nearly a hundred granite stones raised around 6000 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, it is Iberia’s greatest megalithic monument.

Image: Boyko Blagoev Dipçe: A total of forty thousand pieces are exhibited in the Kırcaali Village Regional History Museum, which also includes a work in the OZ structure made of

There are ancient cities that dazzle with their scale and others that charm with their detail. Aphrodisias belongs firmly to the second kind. Tucked into a fertile valley in the

Nearly 4,000 years ago on the Ural steppe, people built a perfectly circular fortified town, raced the first chariots, then burned it down.

Some of the most important places in human history do not look like much. Arslantepe is a low, grassy mound on the fertile plain near Malatya, in eastern Turkey, the

In the high steppes of Tuva, the Arzhan kurgans hold the earliest and most dazzling evidence of Scythian gold, horse sacrifice, and a lost steppe aristocracy.