With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

Mexico seeps history and culture from every city and area you visit. It’s characterized by breathtaking beauty along the ...

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city and stands at an altitude of 2,850 ... the contributions of craftsmen holders of ancient know-how and the ...

Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural ... is perhaps the most famous geographical masterpiece of the ancient Near East. Believed to have been built during Emperor ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Plenty of its land is known to hold ancient discoveries, and archaeologists are still uncovering more. Recently, a team located over 100 previously unknown structures, all part of the Chachapoya ...

In the center of the boat were two skeletons. The skeleton of an ancient woman found in the Viking-era boat grave. Photo from the Arctic University Museum of Norway The larger skeleton belonged to ...

Despite these difficulties, the research team achieved a remarkable breakthrough by recovering and analyzing genomes from seven individuals, all from the ancient city of Copán in present-day Honduras, ...

Set off from the city by a high wall, it was the recently completed tomb of King Mausolus and his sister-queen, Artemisia II. Compared to everything else around it, the tomb was immense.