“I did not have a lot of money,” he told me, “so I had to make my living there.” He became a teacher. He built a house. He and his wife had children. That rare experience of joining the community, he ...

A remarkable discovery has been made in the Peruvian Amazon, where the mysterious peak of Cerro El Cono has drawn attention ...

An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

Don a floral crown for springtime festivities in Sweden or look out for the flame-red fur of orangutans collecting fruit on ...

Some cities don’t just exist in the present — they straddle the past and breathe history into every stone, building, and ...

A historic landmark, Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel was reportedly built for the ruler who created Machu Picchu ...

The road to Machu Picchu, which morphs into a railway for its most spectacular sector, begins in the Valle Sagrado, or Sacred ...

A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was ...

But when Rome fell, invading tribes, the Byzantine Empire, and later European ... much of the gold from ancient times (mainly from empires like Roman, Inca, and the Ottoman) was not preserved ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of antiquity. Credit: Georges Rochegrosse, / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons ...