On a lofty hill in the green highlands of northern Jordan, commanding a tremendous sweep of the Jordan Valley and the three great wadis that descend toward it, stands one

High above the harbour of Oslo, on a rocky headland where the city meets the sea, stands a great grey fortress that has guarded the Norwegian capital for more than

Sometime around the middle of the second millennium BC, on a prosperous island in the southern Aegean, a town died in fire and ash. Its people had already fled, warned

In the highlands of northern Ethiopia stand rows of towering carved stone monoliths, the tallest of which once rose over thirty metres. These are the stelae of Aksum, markers of

Source: Pixabay In the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem stands a walled enclosure that Muslims regard as the third holiest place in their faith, after the sacred mosques

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Alacahoyuk is an ancient mound in central Turkey where Early Bronze Age royal tombs full of gold and bronze standards sit beneath a Hittite sphinx gate.

Discover Alalakh, the Bronze Age city near Antakya whose royal archives, King Idrimi statue, and Aegean-style frescoes reveal Near Eastern history.

High among the crags of the Alborz mountains of northern Iran, upon a narrow spine of rock that rises sheer from the valley floor, there cling the ruins of one

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