On the Don River, some of Europe’s first modern humans hunted mammoths, carved figurines, and built homes of bone 40,000 years ago.

History and Personality Scientist Aleksandar Kozintsev, son of the famous director and Art Scientist Grigori Kozintsev, donates a very old Kam Drum preserved by his father to the Museum of

On a great hill in the west of Syria, commanding the land for miles around, stands what is widely regarded as the finest and most famous castle ever built by

Some castles are famous for their history, and some for their beauty, but Kronborg is famous for a ghost that never existed. This great Renaissance fortress on the northern tip

High in Peru’s cloud forest, Kuelap’s Chachapoya builders raised walls taller than a six-story building, defended by narrow funnel gates and a language now almost entirely lost.

High on a limestone ridge in the cloud forests of northern Peru, wrapped in mist and hung with orchids, stand the towering walls of one of the most extraordinary and

Kultepe is the site of ancient Kanesh in Turkey, where Assyrian merchants left over twenty thousand cuneiform tablets recording Bronze Age trade and family life.

There are castles that were built to be admired and castles that were built to be feared, and Kumamoto belongs firmly, unforgettably, to the second kind. Rising black and stern

In the wide brown waters of the Gambia River, some thirty kilometres upstream from the Atlantic, lies a tiny island so small you could walk around its ruins in a

On a green island in Lake Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden, stands a castle so white and so graceful that it looks as though it has stepped straight out