They called it a dive like any other. Off the coast of Kas, where the Lycian cliffs cradle the Aegean, the water turns from sapphire to shadow….

Over 3,000 years have pᴀssed since Seti I ruled Egypt at the height of its imperial glory—yet his face, remarkably preserved, still stares back at us through…

Beneath the warm earth of Antakya, once known as Antioch, a silent witness to time lies undisturbed by centuries of empires rising and falling. Here, in what…

High in the lonely ranges of southeastern Turkey, where the Anatolian plateau meets the jagged folds of Mesopotamia, a mountain rises crowned with gods and kings. Mount…

The first glimpse of Petra feels almost like an illusion. Emerging from the narrow siq—a winding gorge whose high sandstone walls filter sunlight into shifting bands of…

In the golden haze of the Mesopotamian plain, where the Tigris and Euphrates once wove fertile corridors of civilization, the city of Eridu rises like a colossal…

In a sterile, softly lit room deep within the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a procession of white-coated conservators circled an object that once ruled the world. The…

At first light, when the Sahara is still cool and the sky flushes with pale pink, Hedgehog Rock emerges from the dunes like a creature caught mid-step….

In the shifting dawn light, when the highlands are shrouded in a gauzy veil of mist, the fortress of Al-Qahira appears less like a structure and more…