In the remote mountains of western Myanmar, along the borders with India and Bangladesh, live the Chin, a family of related hill peoples divided into many clans and tongues. Isolated

There is a tiny object, no bigger than a fingernail and made mostly of refined sand, that quietly runs the modern world. It is the computer chip, and almost everything

Among the great nations of the American Southeast, the Choctaw built a settled world of farming towns in the woodlands of Mississippi, tracing their origins to the sacred mound of

At the north-eastern tip of Asia, where Siberia reaches toward Alaska across the Bering Strait, live the Chukchi, one of the northernmost peoples on earth. On the frozen tundra and

Source: Pixabay Tucked into the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City stands the church that many Christians regard as the holiest place on earth: the Church of the Holy

Source: Pixabay A short drive south of Jerusalem, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, stands one of the oldest churches in continuous use anywhere in the world: the Church

Most churches keep their paintings safely inside, sheltered from the weather. In a remote corner of northern Romania, a handful of small monasteries did something almost unheard of: they covered

Rising from the very center of one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, the Citadel of Aleppo is not merely a castle but a mountain of memory. For

Rising on a rocky spur beneath the Mokattam hills, dominating the skyline of Cairo, stands one of the great medieval Islamic fortresses of the world: the Citadel of Cairo, the

In the northwest corner of the ancient walled city of Damascus, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, stands a great medieval fortress that has guarded the Syrian