Once the stunning capital of the Persian Empire, Persepolis was lost to the world for almost nineteen hundred years, buried in the dirt of southwestern Iran until the 17th century.
The sun temples of India were dedicated to the Hindu deity Surya, with the most prominent being the Konark Sun Temple at Konark in Odisha. References to sun worship are found in the puranas.
Evgeny Kazantsev is a digital artist who specializes in corporate identity, advertising, illustrations and concept. He was commissioned to illustrate how various ancient wonders of...
Aryabhata was the first Indian astronomer who explicitly said that the earth was round and gave the world the digit "0" (zero) for which he became immortal.
One of the largest prehistoric megalithic settlements where some funerary monuments are still intact remains hidden away owing to lack of any conservation or development by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
No matter if the civilization was Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian or Mayan, its legacy today is in part marked by towering pyramids. While not all of them resemble the Egyptian pyramids there’s little doubt that they’re equally as wondrous.
The new discovery of ancient tools in Papa New Guinea offers evidence that cultural changes sparked by farming were not imported from Asia, but developed independently in the region.
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