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At its height, the ancient city of Hattuşa, capital of the Hittite civilization ... of this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sites and artifacts are ...

They mark the site of the ancient city Meroë, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The center of a powerful civilization ... stelae to erase their names from history. A small chapel tomb (ca 13th ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient ... Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo. The Olmec civilization, the first ...

Despite the importance of Crete to ancient Greek civilization, archaeological study of its culture is relatively recent. Some of the earliest traces of a powerful, Bronze Age civilization were ...

are some of the highlights of National Geographic’s Nile River Cruise: Treasures of Egypt? This trip carries the traveler to many of the highlights of ancient Egyptian civilization. Starting in ...