For three thousand years the great stone lions above the gate of Mycenae have kept watch over an empty hill in the northeastern Peloponnese. They were carved when the citadel

On a rocky hill in the Argolid of southern Greece stand the ruins of Mycenae, the stronghold of a warlike Bronze Age people who gave their name to a whole

When night falls over the city of Mysore in southern India, something magical happens. Along the outlines of a great palace, tens of thousands of light bulbs blaze into life,

On a flooding reef off Pohnpei, Pacific islanders raised a stone city of 92 artificial islets and 750,000 tonnes of basalt. Meet Nan Madol, the astonishing “Venice of the Pacific.”

Off the shore of the tiny island of Pohnpei, in the middle of the western Pacific Ocean, lies one of the most extraordinary and least-known ancient cities on earth. Nan

On the edge of a coral reef off a tropical island in the western Pacific, half-drowned by the rising sea and shrouded in dense jungle, stands one of the most

Few human lives have bent the course of history as sharply as that of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the space of barely twenty years, an obscure young officer from the island

High above the old town of Tbilisi, crowning the steep ridge of Sololaki that rises sheer from the banks of the Kura river, stands the ancient fortress of Narikala, the

It is the castle of a thousand postcards, a hundred films, a million dreams. Rising white and turreted from a wooded crag high in the Bavarian Alps, its slender towers

Nevali Cori is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey where carved stone pillars and a polished shrine floor, built nearly 11,000 years ago, now sit underwater.