Sudan is home to more pyramids than Egypt, most of them built by the ancient Kingdom of Kush. Concentrated around sites like Meroë, these pyramids served as royal tombs and reflect a distinct ...

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

KARACHI: Famous King of Macedonia Alexander the Great was a “pragmatic, wise, and strong fighter” as he flattened those who ...

You've seen the Eiffel Tower a million times on Instagram. The Colosseum?Overdone. While everyone flocks to the same tired monuments, there's a whole world of breathtaking historic sites that barely ...

From the Andes to the Nile, explore ancient civilisations that remain accessible to travellers, with a focus on heritage and ...

This specific iconography of subjugation — a bound captive struck by a weapon — has deep roots in Egyptian state ideology. It parallels famous early dynastic scenes like those at Gebel Sheikh Suleiman ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have been key to its economic success ...

An ancient Christian monastic complex was recently uncovered in Egypt — shedding new light on monastic life in Upper Egypt during the Byzantine era. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Global YouTube star IShowSpeed took his millions of followers on a virtual tour of ancient Egypt this week, visiting two of the country’s most famous landmarks, the Giza Pyramids and the Grand ...

A drone hovering over the village of Zehanpora in Baramulla district in north Kashmir gives a bird’s eye view of the landscape below. It shows a giant pile of rubble, shaded by a thicket of acacia and ...