A short boat ride from the city of Dakar, off the coast of Senegal, lies a small and beautiful island whose name has become synonymous with one of the greatest

Some places hold a few centuries of history; the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long holds a thousand years. In the heart of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, this great walled

Some places hold both the glory and the tragedy of a nation within their walls, and the Imperial City of Hue is one of them. Spread along the banks of

For almost the whole of human history, the vast majority of people lived much as their great-grandparents had. They worked the land or worked with their hands, they travelled no

On a lake in northern Greece, waterlogged mud preserved a Neolithic village, and a wooden tablet that may bear some of the world’s oldest signs.

The world knows the Louvre as the greatest museum on earth, the home of the Mona Lisa and countless other treasures, visited by more people than any other art gallery

Joya de Ceren, El Salvador’s Pompeii of the Americas, preserves an ordinary Maya farming village buried by volcanic ash around 600 CE.

On two small Mediterranean islands stand the oldest free-standing stone monuments on Earth. Malta’s megalithic temples were built around 3600 BC — a thousand years before the pyramids — by farmers, not giants.

Rising above the Moskva River in the very centre of Moscow, its mighty red walls and towers enclosing a glittering treasure house of golden-domed cathedrals and grand palaces, stands the

The Nazca people carved hundreds of massive desert drawings meant to be seen from above, centuries before anyone could have flown over them.