Abakan / Khakassia history museum images 18 Sunday Oct 2015 Original size at 1366 × 2048 ≈ Leave a comment

Deep in the far south of Egypt, close to the border with Sudan, four giant figures sit carved into a cliff of golden sandstone, each of them a portrait of

Among the many temples of ancient Egypt, few are as sacred, or as beautiful, as Abydos. For thousands of years this was the holiest cult centre of Osiris, the god

It is just one of the countless tamgali rocks, obelisks and balbals that I photographed in Adana. The recent burial title in the image promises the life of an eternal

On a ridge above the southern coast of Sicily stands one of the most spectacular groups of Greek temples anywhere in the world. The Valley of the Temples at Agrigento

On the edge of the Sahara, where the great Atlas Mountains give way to the desert, rises one of the most extraordinary and beautiful fortified villages in the world: Aït

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

Born from earthquake and fire, the Ajuda National Palace became the last home of the Portuguese monarchy and one of Lisbon’s richest museums.

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