On a windswept ridge in the Outer Hebrides, thirteen ancient stones ring a towering monolith — a 5,000-year-old monument tied to the moon and the far horizon.

Caral, in the Supe Valley of Peru, is the oldest known city in the Americas — built with pyramids, sunken plazas, and clever earthquake-proof foundations at the very same time as the Great Pyramid of Egypt, yet with almost no sign of war.

In a Peruvian desert, a lost civilization built pyramids at the same time as the Egyptians, with no contact between them. Inside Caral, the oldest known city in the Americas.

In southern Brittany, more than 3,000 standing stones march in vast rows across the fields — older than Stonehenge, older than the pyramids, and still unexplained.

In central Turkey, thousands of people once lived in a honeycomb town with no streets, entering their homes through the roof and burying their dead beneath the floor. Meet Çatalhöyük, one of humanity’s first great experiments in living together.

On the desert coast of Peru stands a temple whose walls are lined with hundreds of carved stones showing marching warriors and their dismembered victims. Meet Cerro Sechin, one of the oldest and most haunting monuments in the Americas.

A line of thirteen stone towers in the Peruvian desert forms the oldest known solar observatory in the Americas, tracking the sun across the year with astonishing precision over 2,000 years ago.

On Christmas Day in the year 800, in the old basilica of Saint Peter in Rome, a tall Frankish king knelt in prayer and the Pope stepped forward and placed

Long before the Inca, a temple in the Peruvian Andes used darkness, roaring water, carved monsters, and visions to overwhelm pilgrims. Meet Chavin de Huantar and its fanged god, the Lanzon.

Image: Leonid Plotkin The most spectacular Elikli rock from the rocky area of Cholpan Ata, where every stone is adorned with Scythian – Kun traces. There are many more rock