On the floodplain of the Niger River in Mali stand the mounds of a city that rewrote the history of Africa, the oldest known urban center south of the Sahara,

Before La Venta, before the Maya, before every great civilization of ancient Mexico, there was a capital on the Gulf coast where the first colossal stone heads of the Americas

For seventy-two extraordinary days in the spring of 1871, the city of Paris governed itself. The national government had fled, the regular army had withdrawn, and into the vacuum stepped

High on a wooded peak above the town of Sintra, near Lisbon, stands one of the most extraordinary buildings in Europe: the Pena Palace. Painted in vivid reds and yellows,

On a small island in the Neva River, at the very heart of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, stands the fortress from which the whole of

In the heart of Rome stands a real ancient Egyptian-style pyramid. The strange story of Gaius Cestius, Rome’s obsession with Egypt, and how the walls of the city saved it.

On a desert plateau at the edge of modern Cairo stand the most famous monuments ever built by human hands: the pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx. Raised more

Every “Harappan” artifact, every reference to the “Harappan civilization” in a textbook, traces back to a single mound beside the Ravi River in Pakistani Punjab where British engineers, laying railway

Rising in great walls of red sandstone along the banks of the Yamuna river in the heart of Old Delhi, the Red Fort is the supreme monument of the Mughal

Some places feel almost too dramatic to be real, and the Rock of Cashel is one of them. Rising straight out of the flat green farmland of County Tipperary, this