Ancient Explore

The <n>Qasr at Kabao</n> in Jabal Nafusa, from <n>Anthony Hutt</n>'s book <n>North Africa</n> (1977).

An aerial view of <n>Mount Taranaki</n> in New Zealand. Photo by <n>Sin parar de Viajar</n> and <n>Lester Chan</n>.

<n>Mount Fuji</n> photographed by <n>NASA</n>'s <n>Expedition 2 crew</n> from the <n>International Space Station</n>, 2001.

Photo by <n>寂寞 Ｓｏｆｔｗａｒｅ２０５０</n>.

The <n>Great Sphinx of Giza</n>, photographed by <n>Adelphoi Zangaki</n> in 1880.

Photo by <n>Anthony Pappone</n> of traditional <n>Gurunsi architecture</n> in Tiébélé, Burkina Faso.

From the series <n>When you hear the whistle, it's me</n> by photographer <n>Mirka Laura Severa</n>.

A woman meditates before the <n>marusa</n> plant in <n>Amazonia</n>.

Photo by <n>Hana</n> taken in the Philippines.

The <n>Pyramids of Giza</n> during the <n>Nile River flood</n>, late 19th century. Photo by the <n>Zangaki brothers</n>.

The relocation of the <n>Abu Simbel temples</n> in Aswan, Egypt, 1964-1968. Photo by <n>George Gerster</n>.

<n>Aukana Buddha</n> in Sri Lanka, photographed by <n>Raghubir Singh</n> for <n>National Geographic</n> in 1979.

A 1988 photo by <n>Margaret Courtney-Clarke</n> from the book <n>African Canvas. The Art of West African Women</n>.

Farmers work in the fields before the <n>Great Buddha of Bamiyan</n> in Afghanistan, 1992.

Photo by <n>Annie Spratt</n> via <n>Unsplash</n>.

The <n>Lençóis Maranhenses National Park</n> in Brazil. Photo by <n>BIEL & BRU</n>.

Digital collage by <n>Female Pentimento</n>, 2024.

Tourists climbing the <n>Great Pyramid of Giza</n>, circa 1880.

<n>Glacier in the Ragged Range</n> of Canada's Nahanni National Park Reserve, from <n>National Geographic</n>, 1981.

Primatologist <n>Biruté Galdikas</n> embraces an orangutan.

Archaeologist <n>Walter Alva</n> excavates the <n>Tomb of the Lord of Sipán</n> in Peru, 1987. Photo by <n>Bill Ballenberg</n>.

A 1995 photograph taken in Sri Lanka by <n>Steve McCurry</n>.

<n>Mount Vesuvius</n> in Italy, captured by the <n>Landsat 8</n> satellite. Image by <n>Joshua Stevens</n> for <n>NASA</n>.

Sand dunes and lagoons on the Brazilian coast, photographed by <n>Monty Adkins</n>.

The <n>Church of Saint George</n> in Lalibela, Ethiopia, carved from a single block of rock in the 12th c.

The <n>Fyrkat</n> Viking ring castle in Denmark, photographed by <n>Ted Spiegel</n> for <n>National Geographic</n> in 1970.

Photograph by <n>Leonard Carmichael</n> from his 1978 series <n>Les Nomades</n>.

The <n>Pyramids of Giza</n> and the <n>Nile River</n> in Cairo, Egypt, circa 1910s.

<n>Mount Semeru</n> and <n>Mount Bromo</n> in Java, Indonesia. Photo by <n>Dan Brooks</n> for <n>National Geographic</n>.

The <n>Li River</n> in China, known for its distinctive karst landscapes.

<n>The Astronaut</n> geoglyph, created by the <n>Nazca culture</n> in the Nazca Desert, Peru.

Cover art for <n>Norman Perry</n>'s albums <n>Play by Play</n> (2018) and <n>XX2</n> (2019).

The <n>Philae Temple Complex</n> in Aswan, Egypt, partially submerged by the flooding of the Nile.

The <n>Great Sphinx of Giza</n> photographed from a hot air balloon in the late 19th century.