Source: Pixabay Before it was a mosque, Hagia Sophia was the crowning achievement of Byzantine architecture and the spiritual centre of the Eastern Roman Empire. Built in the sixth century

On a Breton headland stands the Cairn of Barnenez, a 75-metre stone monument with eleven burial chambers, raised around 4800 BCE — older than the pyramids and one of Europe’s oldest buildings.

Source: Pixabay For many people, Santiago de Compostela is not just a place but a journey – the end of the Camino de Santiago, the Way of Saint James. This

Source: Pixabay In the green, rainy northwest corner of Spain, the city of Santiago de Compostela has drawn pilgrims for more than a thousand years. At its heart stands one

In India, to train elephants, they tie them while still very young to a stake with a thick chain. Of course, it is impossible for such a small calf to

Are China’s pyramids a secret hidden under trees? The real story of the emperors’ earthen tombs, the Terracotta Army, rivers of mercury, and why the greatest tomb stays sealed.

Source: Pixabay Tucked into the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City stands the church that many Christians regard as the holiest place on earth: the Church of the Holy

Source: Pixabay A short drive south of Jerusalem, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, stands one of the oldest churches in continuous use anywhere in the world: the Church

Most churches keep their paintings safely inside, sheltered from the weather. In a remote corner of northern Romania, a handful of small monasteries did something almost unheard of: they covered

According to the Sumerians’ own king list, kingship itself first descended from heaven at a city called Eridu, but it was Ur, a little further down the Euphrates, that rose