These descriptions used in the Ottoman Sailor and Janissary sanjaks have different interpretations. There is a common point where they meet; The first is the analogy with the forked-headed sword

Stand on the battlements of Dover Castle on a clear day and you can see France. That single fact explains almost everything about the place. For two thousand years, this

Overshadowed by Newgrange, the 5,000-year-old passage tomb of Dowth is just as ancient and just as mysterious — a brooding mound that still guards its secrets.

On a green island in the waters west of Stockholm stands the most beautiful royal palace in Sweden, a serene baroque masterpiece so graceful that it has earned the nickname

A queen’s Baroque palace on an island near Stockholm, Drottningholm survives complete with its gardens, Chinese pavilion, and unique court theatre.

On a green island in a lake just west of Stockholm stands one of the loveliest royal palaces in all of Europe, a place where the grandeur of the French

In the heart of Dublin, on a site that has been a centre of power since the earliest days of the city, stands a complex of towers, courtyards, and grand

Most castles are content to guard one town or one stretch of coast. Dublin Castle set out to rule a whole country. For the better part of seven hundred years

Some castles impress you. Dunnottar stops you in your tracks. Perched on the flat top of a great rock that juts out into the North Sea, all but severed from

On a bluff above the Euphrates River in eastern Syria stood Dura-Europos, a frontier city so well preserved by the desert sand that it has been called the Pompeii of