Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas is a journey through 13,000 years of human ingenuity and achievement in the ...

Ancient Technologies From Vanished Empires You Wont Believe: 25 Unbelievable Facts About Ancient Civilizations: When we think of ancient civilizations, we usually talk about their temples, warriors, ...

As the cradle of democracy, rational philosophy and theater, Greece laid the foundations of Western thought. It influenced ...

In the remote town of Huaytará, Peru, the building that houses the Church of San Juan Bautista is more than what it seems. It was built upon a three-walled Incan structure called a carpa uasi that ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast ...

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned with ...