All "must-see" places will be full of visitors; crowds at ultra-popular sites ... World Heritage site designation is essentially a reliable stamp of approval that means "visit here." The ancient ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure ... agricultural civilizations and nomadic civilizations in ancient China.

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Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal ... more difficult to get to than most other Maya sites (save for Yaxchilán, which still requires ...

However, Mohamed Ismail Khaled, the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, clarified Tuesday that it was the first discovered in the area around Luxor, which includes the ...

One of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network ... attracting around 150,000 visitors monthly, Ayman Nabu, a researcher and expert ...

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For many years, the ancient Greeks ... structure of the world economy in a way that can still be felt today. Those who controlled the spices could divert the flow of wealth around the world.