Visit the Tigranakert ruins

Fourth-century monastery where Mesrop Mashtots opened the first Armenian school.

The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.

Ancient rock-hewn town on the Silk Road, inhabited from the Iron Age.

Ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire.

Xi'an's buried army of clay warriors.

Boulder-strewn ruins of the Vijayanagara empire along the Tungabhadra river.

Sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus — home of the ancient oracle.

Bronze Age Minoan palace outside Heraklion, legendary seat of King Minos.