My traveling career began by chance early one morning in the Assyrian gallery of the British Museum. I was 20 and had come to photograph the mythical creatures that once guarded the gates of Nimrud in ...

While much of Sogdian culture may be lost to time, some of their structures still stand, including the ruins of an ornate ...

The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in a vast and arid plain 40 miles from Shiraz in southern Iran, is the greatest ancient site between the Holy Land and India. This is a rare place that ...

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