By firelight in the deep dark, Ice Age people painted horses, lions and bison on cave walls up to 36,000 years ago. These are some of the oldest artworks ever made — and they are astonishingly alive.

Before Giza, there was Djoser. Discover the world’s oldest pyramid at Saqqara — who built it, what made it revolutionary, and the debate over what “oldest” really means.

In the Franconian city of Würzburg, on the northern edge of Bavaria, stands a palace that many consider the single most perfect expression of the Baroque age in Germany. The

On the east bank of the Nile in southern Egypt lies a stretch of ruins so vast that the ancient Greeks called it the city of a hundred gates. The

The smoke rising from Turkmen Mountain did not surprise the Turkish public a little. We had compatriots in Bulgaria, Greece and Iraq, but what was Syria? By the way, we

We came down to the earth to fly THREE boxes appeared in sight We took a taste and salt from life We reached out to the Essence of Tengri Kürşad

“THREE MOONS Tuğu” in the script called “Horae Apocalypticae” published in the West in 1860. This Tuğ used by the Ottoman Empire is one of the derivatives of the three-headed

Tikal ruled the Peten rainforest for over a thousand years, building the Maya world’s tallest temples and rivaling Calakmul for regional power.

Deep in the rainforest of northern Guatemala, in the region known as the Petén, six great temples pierce the jungle canopy like stone mountains. This is Tikal, one of the

For centuries the name Timbuktu has stood, in the imagination of the outside world, for the most remote place on earth. The reality is even more remarkable: a city on