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The polygonal walls of the Sun Temple at Ollantaytambo in Peru feature enormous, precisely fitted andesite blocks, some ...
20/08/2026

The polygonal walls of the Sun Temple at Ollantaytambo in Peru feature enormous, precisely fitted andesite blocks, some weighing many tonnes, arranged in complex interlocking joints without conventional mortar, with the monumental unfinished masonry dating broadly to the 15th century CE and remaining one of the most impressive examples of ancient Andean stone construction...

The monumental temples of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt were relocated between 1964 and 1968 to save them from the rising...
20/08/2026

The monumental temples of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt were relocated between 1964 and 1968 to save them from the rising waters of Lake Nasser following construction of the Aswan High Dam, with the temples carefully cut into thousands of blocks and reassembled on higher ground about 65 metres above their original location, preserving one of ancient Egypt’s greatest architectural achievements...

The Bayon Temple at Angkor Thom in Cambodia was constructed in the late 12th to early 13th century CE under King Jayavar...
20/08/2026

The Bayon Temple at Angkor Thom in Cambodia was constructed in the late 12th to early 13th century CE under King Jayavarman VII, distinguished by its monumental towers carved with immense serene faces and extensive bas-reliefs depicting religious imagery, royal processions, battles and scenes of everyday Khmer life...

The extraordinary Kailasa Temple at Ellora in Maharashtra, India, was carved directly from a single massive outcrop of b...
20/08/2026

The extraordinary Kailasa Temple at Ellora in Maharashtra, India, was carved directly from a single massive outcrop of basalt between the 8th and 9th centuries CE under the Rashtrakuta dynasty, with its monumental courtyards, towering shrine, sculpted façades and intricate reliefs created by removing enormous quantities of rock to produce one of the most ambitious examples of monolithic architecture in the ancient world...

The colossal 70-metre-long Reclining Buddha integrated into the western façade of the Baphuon at Angkor was created duri...
20/08/2026

The colossal 70-metre-long Reclining Buddha integrated into the western façade of the Baphuon at Angkor was created during the temple’s transformation into a Buddhist site around the 15th–16th century, reusing sandstone blocks from the original 11th-century Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva and reflecting the profound religious and architectural changes that reshaped Angkor during the post-Angkorian period...

The monumental reliefs of Persepolis, begun under Darius I and expanded by Xerxes I in the late 6th to early 5th century...
20/08/2026

The monumental reliefs of Persepolis, begun under Darius I and expanded by Xerxes I in the late 6th to early 5th century BCE, depict orderly processions of royal guards, court officials and delegations from across the Achaemenid Empire, their precise low-relief carving, distinctive attire and tribute offerings conveying imperial unity, hierarchy, ceremony and the immense power of the Persian royal court...

Inside the Machu Pichu citadel...
20/08/2026

Inside the Machu Pichu citadel...

The pyramids of Meroë in modern Sudan formed the royal necropolis of the Kingdom of Kush, flourishing particularly from ...
20/08/2026

The pyramids of Meroë in modern Sudan formed the royal necropolis of the Kingdom of Kush, flourishing particularly from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE, with more than 200 steep-sided pyramids built from sandstone and mud brick, featuring carved chapels and offering chambers that reflect distinctive Nubian funerary traditions and the power of Kush*te kings, queens and nobles...

The Babylonian Map of the World, or Imago Mundi, is a remarkable 6th-century BCE cuneiform clay tablet from Sippar in mo...
20/08/2026

The Babylonian Map of the World, or Imago Mundi, is a remarkable 6th-century BCE cuneiform clay tablet from Sippar in modern Iraq, depicting Babylon at the centre of a disk-shaped world surrounded by the Bitter River, with known lands and cities such as Assyria, Susa and Elam alongside distant regions that blend geographical knowledge with Babylonian mythology and cosmology...

The imposing deva guardians lining the causeways of Angkor Thom were carved in the late 12th to early 13th century durin...
20/08/2026

The imposing deva guardians lining the causeways of Angkor Thom were carved in the late 12th to early 13th century during the reign of Jayavarman VII, depicting benevolent celestial beings gripping the body of the naga in the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, a Hindu-Buddhist cosmic myth symbolising the struggle to obtain amrita, restore balance and maintain cosmic order at the entrance to the Khmer imperial capital...

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