On Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four main islands, 11.000 years ago humans still lived as nomads without permanent settlements. It was only several thousand years later that they began […]

People from all over the known world flocked to the Zeus-dedicated sanctuary at Olympia every four years to watch the most prestigious sporting contests in antiquity, the Olympic Games, and […]

Some 2,700 years ago a Sabaean stonemason, on the orders of the king, carved Sabaean characters into an altar that stood in the temple of the supreme god Almaqah. What […]

Gonur Depe (“grey hill”) is a Bronze Age city in Turkmenistan. It’s the most widely investigated archaeological site of the Oxus Civilization, with extensively excavated settlement districts and grave fields. […]