Ceremony, spectacle and cities carved from rock. Explore the traces of societies that shaped the world long before our own.
Ancient worlds / Wiltshire, EnglandA ring of weathered stones opens a much larger story: generations of builders, distant connections and a landscape shaped around ceremony. Stonehenge rewards looking beyond its familiar silhouette.
Ancient worlds / Rome, ItalyThe familiar arches surround an extraordinary performance machine. Beneath the arena, passages and lifting equipment reveal how Roman spectacle depended on complex organisation as well as monumental architecture.
Ancient worlds / Ma'an Governorate, JordanA carved façade appears between sandstone walls, but Petra stretches far beyond that famous reveal. This was a trading city whose survival depended on sophisticated control of water.