High in Peru’s cloud forest, Kuelap’s Chachapoya builders raised walls taller than a six-story building, defended by narrow funnel gates and a language now almost entirely lost.

High on a limestone ridge in the cloud forests of northern Peru, wrapped in mist and hung with orchids, stand the towering walls of one of the most extraordinary and

Kultepe is the site of ancient Kanesh in Turkey, where Assyrian merchants left over twenty thousand cuneiform tablets recording Bronze Age trade and family life.

There are castles that were built to be admired and castles that were built to be feared, and Kumamoto belongs firmly, unforgettably, to the second kind. Rising black and stern

In the wide brown waters of the Gambia River, some thirty kilometres upstream from the Atlantic, lies a tiny island so small you could walk around its ruins in a

High in the pine-clad foothills of the Guadarrama mountains, above the city of Segovia and far from the dust of Madrid, an aging king built himself a mountain paradise meant

On a green island in Lake Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden, stands a castle so white and so graceful that it looks as though it has stepped straight out

In the mountains of northern Ethiopia stands a group of churches unlike any others in the world. Rather than being built up from the ground, they were carved downward into

On Belize’s New River Lagoon, Lamanai kept thriving through the Classic Maya collapse, Spanish colonization, and a colonial revolt, making it one of the longest continuously occupied Maya cities.

On a high ridge of the Otago Peninsula, overlooking a long harbour on the southern coast of New Zealand’s South Island, stands the only castle in the entire country. Larnach