Ancient Ruins

Awe-Inspiring Ruins Of Hampi

The ruins of Hampi, once a grand city in the Indian state of Karnataka, were once home to around 500,000 people in the Vijayanagara Empire, and filled with Hindu temples. The abandoned city is now dotted with hundreds of individual ruins, home to countless architectural wonders.

Magnificent Ruins Of The Ancient City Of Persepolis

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.

25 Incredible Ancient Pyramids Around The World

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.

Bateshwar Temples — India’s largest jigsaw puzzle

Bateshwar Temple complex is not home to only a solitary temple but the temples here form a giant jigsaw puzzle with its pieces scattered over 25 acres of a hill slope.

The Ruined City of Ani

Ruled by a dizzying array of kingdoms and empires over the centuries, the former regional power of Ani is now an eerie, abandoned city of ghosts.

Archaeologists Unearth 3,200-Year-Old Canaanite Temple in Israel

Built around 1800 B.C., Lachish is mentioned in both the Bible and in various Egyptian sources and was one of the few Canaanite cities to survive into the 12th century BCE,

Fascinating Ruins of Ancient Chaukhandi Stupa in Sarnath, India

One of the most important places to visit in Varanasi, the Chaukhandi Stupa at Sarnath is believed to have been constructed in somewhere between the 4th and 6th century, during the Gupta era.

Ancient Nalanda University of India

Nalanda University was an ancient centre of learning in India. Established in the 5th century AD by Gupta Kings, Nalanda University was among the...
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