On an August day in the year 79, or possibly a little later in the autumn, the mountain that had loomed peacefully over the Bay of Naples for as long

In the year 79 AD, the Roman town of Pompeii vanished in a single day, buried under metres of ash and pumice when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted. That catastrophe,

On the humid Caribbean coast of Panama, where jungle-clad hills tumble down to a sheltered bay, lie the crumbling ruins of forts that once guarded one of the greatest concentrations

In the Louisiana lowlands, hunter-gatherers with no farming raised six giant concentric ridges and a huge bird-shaped mound over 3,000 years ago. Meet Poverty Point, a monument that rewrites the story of early civilisation.

There are cities where the castle is a museum you visit and then leave behind, a stop between lunch and the train. Prague is not one of them. Here the

On the plains of central Java, not far from the great Buddhist monument of Borobudur, rises a cluster of tall, sharply pointed towers of dark stone. This is Prambanan, the

In the karst country of southwestern Slovenia, tucked into the mouth of a cave in a towering vertical cliff, stands one of the most astonishing castles in all of Europe.

All cultures are influenced by each other! .. Celebrated by Christians as the birth of Christ, the Christmas festival is the rebirth of ancient Turks. According to the beliefs of

In El Salvador’s Chalchuapa valley, Tazumal survived the massive Ilopango eruption, absorbed Teotihuacan influence, and later saw Nahua-Pipil migrants reshape its Maya-founded culture.

Come around a bend of the Moselle in western Germany and you will meet one of the most perfect castle views in the country. High on a cone of vine-covered