Visit the Great Sphinx

Ramesses II's colossal rock-cut temples.

Eleven kilograms of gold and lapis over the face of a teenage pharaoh, now in the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Tutankhamun’s gold mask, royal mummies and 120,000 pharaonic treasures in the 1902 museum on Tahrir Square.

Ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire.

Xi'an's buried army of clay warriors.

Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.

Colossal stone heads ringing a mountaintop royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.