Teotihuacan, located northeast of modern-day Mexico City, was a thriving metropolis between 100 BCE and 600 CE, housing up to 200,000 people. The Pyramid of the Sun, the city's largest structure ...

(Getty Images)| In Mexico's ancient city of Teotihuacán – a UNESCO World Heritage Site that once boasted a population of more than 125,000 people – visitors will find the Pyramid of the Sun.

creeping ever longer as the north African sun sinks beyond the horizon. This is where our history of Egypt begins, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where stone meets sky as a testament ...

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the ...

Deep in the vast steppes of Central Asia, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable ancient structure—a pyramid over 3,000 ...

By building the pyramids, ancient Egyptians believed they could make certain that, just like the Sun God, their king would be reborn in the afterlife. These are the Pyramid Texts - they are spells ...

As the narrator explains the Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the Sun God, a reconstruction of a pharaoh and her soldiers is seen in the Egyptian desert. The pyramids were built so the Sun God could be ...