Deep in the forests of northern Cambodia lies the largest religious monument ever built. Angkor Wat is only the most famous of hundreds of temples that once formed the heart

Near the southern coast of Turkey stands what many consider the best-preserved Roman theatre in the world. The theatre of Aspendos, built in the second century AD, survives so complete,

Deep in the Lacandon rainforest of Chiapas, in southern Mexico, a small and otherwise modest Maya city holds one of the greatest artistic treasures of the ancient Americas. Bonampak is

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 a bluff above the Euphrates River in eastern Syria stood Dura-Europos, a frontier city so well preserved by the desert sand that it has been called the Pompeii of

Built roughly 11,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers in southeastern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is older than farming, writing and the pyramids — and it changed how we understand the dawn of civilization.

In the granite hills of southern Africa stand the ruins of a great city built entirely of stone, its curving walls raised without mortar and rising in places to more

People have lived at Jericho for around 11,000 years without a break. It holds the oldest known town wall and tower on Earth, and some of humanity’s first portraits — the haunting plastered skulls of its Neolithic dead.

Just 30 km from Göbekli Tepe lies an 11,000-year-old site that is rewriting history in real time. With its haunting chamber of pillars and lifelike human carvings, Karahan Tepe proves a whole lost world once thrived here.

Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, this Irish passage tomb was built so that on the winter solstice, the rising sun pours down a stone passage and lights its hidden chamber. Inside the wonder of Newgrange.