Naqsh-i-Rustam, located in modern day Iran.
At least three thousand years old, Naqsh-i-Rustam was a zoroastrian temple complex containing four tombs of Achaemenid kings who ruled over ancient Persia. Reliefs and royal inscriptions from the Sassanid period can be found here as well.
The great and ancient ruins of Mohenjo-Daro, part of a vast and powerful civilization which dominated the Indus river valley thousands of years ago. While Incredibly sophisticated city builders, distinct gaps in the archeological record means we know extremely little of what must have been one of the first great epochs of human civilization.
A photo of the Eanna district of Uruk (top), one of the oldest and greatest cities of the ancient Sumerian world, contrasted with an artist’s depiction of Uruk 5,000 years ago (bottom).
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace
