In the summer of 1588 a vast fleet of Spanish warships sailed up the English Channel with the intention of conquering England. It was the most powerful invasion force Europe

On the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia, where a curve of golden sand meets a plain rising gently toward low hills, lie the ruins of a place that is unique in

Few ruins in the world manage to feel this alive. Walk into Ephesus early in the day, before the crowds thicken along the marble, and the city almost hums. Grooves

Most cities cannot tell you the year they were born. Yerevan can. High on a hill overlooking the modern Armenian capital stand the remains of an ancient fortress whose founding

Etowah Indian Mounds in Georgia was a powerful Mississippian center with six earthen mounds, marble effigy statues, and copper art, thriving between 1000 and 1550 CE.

More than 6,000 years ago in Bulgaria, a fortified town grew rich boiling brine into salt, and may be the oldest town in Europe.

“While there were uprisings in Albania and Arabia, Armenians were being massacred by Kurds on September 29, 1911.” – (The War in Europe, 199 / New York – 1914) While

In a quiet Corsican valley stand the statue-menhirs of Filitosa — carved stone figures with faces and weapons, raised thousands of years ago and later built over.

On a bend of the Danube where the river narrows and roars through the Iron Gates gorge between modern Serbia and Romania, a Mesolithic community built trapezoid-shaped houses facing the

Today, there is a separate region in the south of the vast territory of Yakutia, later named Kabarovsk, and this region was among the vast settlements of Yakut-Saka Turks in