The discovery of a 3,400-year-old step pyramid in the heart of Central Asia is forcing me to rethink what I thought I knew about the ancient world. Far from the deserts of Egypt or the jungles of ...
On a windswept promontory in Kazakhstan, archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age settlement that functioned less like a ...
An illustration from the 14th century Jami‛ al-Tawarikh by Rashid al-Din (https://warfare.x10host.com/Persia/14/Diez_Album-p59.htm). This piece is part of a series ...
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ON the remote and mysterious plain, the crenelated walls with their eleven great gates and 181 watchtowers gleamed in the night. “Seen thus,” wrote British Traveler Fitzroy Maclean in Escape to ...