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The famous stone Buddha head cradled in tree roots at Wat Mahathat, Ayutthaya.
History

Ayutthaya: The Ruined Golden Capital of Siam and the Buddha Head in the Tree

On an island where three rivers meet in central Thailand lie the ruins of Ayutthaya, once the glittering capital of the kingdom of Siam and one of the largest and

The Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, one of the best-preserved Roman temples in the world.
History

Baalbek: The Roman Sun City With Columns and Stones Beyond Belief

In the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon stand some of the most colossal temples the Roman world ever built. This is Baalbek, known in antiquity as Heliopolis, the City of the

The reconstructed Ishtar Gate of Babylon, its brilliant blue glazed bricks now in Berlin.
History

Babylon: The Legendary City of Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar, and the Tower of Babel

Few names from the ancient world carry as much weight as Babylon. For thousands of years it was a byword for splendour, power and sometimes decadence, a great city on

The temple-studded plain of Bagan at sunrise, in central Myanmar.
History

Bagan: The Myanmar Plain Where Thousands of Buddhist Temples Rise From the Mist

On a bend of the Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar lies one of the most extraordinary religious landscapes on earth. Across the dusty plain of Bagan stand thousands of Buddhist

History

Bang Pa-In: The Garden Palace of the Thai Kings

On a bend of the Chao Phraya River, a short journey upstream from Bangkok and just below the ruins of the old capital of Ayutthaya, lies one of the most

History

Bare Island Fort: The Botany Bay Fortress Built on a Scandal

At the southern edge of Sydney, where the suburb of La Perouse looks out across the mouth of Botany Bay, a short wooden footbridge leads out to a small rocky

History

Başbuğ Gazi M.K. Rare images of Ataturk (300)

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Beaumaris Castle from above, the most perfectly concentric castle ever built in Britain
History

Beaumaris Castle: The Perfect Fortress That Was Never Finished

Here is a strange kind of masterpiece: a castle so perfectly designed that architects still study it as the textbook ideal, and yet a castle that was never actually finished.

La Danta pyramid rising above the rainforest at El Mirador Guatemala
History

Before Tikal, There Was El Mirador

El Mirador rose centuries before Tikal, raising La Danta, one of the largest pyramids ever built, deep in Guatemala’s Mirador Basin rainforest.

Rough map of the Eridu mound showing the main ziggurat, temple, and a few buildings
History

Before Uruk, Before Ur: Eridu and the Memory of the World’s First City

The Sumerians themselves believed Eridu was the very first city on Earth, the place where kingship was lowered down from heaven at the dawn of time, according to the Sumerian