In the summer of 1588 a vast fleet of Spanish warships sailed up the English Channel with the intention of conquering England. It was the most powerful invasion force Europe

Along a basalt cliff in western India stretches one of the most astonishing achievements of human labour and faith: the Ellora caves. Cut into the living rock over several centuries,

Some historic places are visited for their beauty, but Elmina Castle is visited for its truth. Rising white and serene above the surf on the coast of Ghana, it is

On the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia, where a curve of golden sand meets a plain rising gently toward low hills, lie the ruins of a place that is unique in

Few ruins in the world manage to feel this alive. Walk into Ephesus early in the day, before the crowds thicken along the marble, and the city almost hums. Grooves

On the Aegean coast of Turkey lie the ruins of Ephesus, one of the greatest cities of the ancient world and the finest surviving classical city in the eastern Mediterranean.

In the green hills of the northeastern Peloponnese lies Epidaurus, home to the most perfect and best-preserved theatre of the ancient Greek world. Its acoustics are so extraordinary that a

Rising some thirty meters above the surrounding plain, a great oval mound crowned with a dense huddle of houses dominates the heart of the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Most cities cannot tell you the year they were born. Yerevan can. High on a hill overlooking the modern Armenian capital stand the remains of an ancient fortress whose founding

Etowah Indian Mounds in Georgia was a powerful Mississippian center with six earthen mounds, marble effigy statues, and copper art, thriving between 1000 and 1550 CE.