In the highlands of northern Ethiopia stand rows of towering carved stone monoliths, the tallest of which once rose over thirty metres. These are the stelae of Aksum, markers of

Alacahoyuk is an ancient mound in central Turkey where Early Bronze Age royal tombs full of gold and bronze standards sit beneath a Hittite sphinx gate.

Discover Alalakh, the Bronze Age city near Antakya whose royal archives, King Idrimi statue, and Aegean-style frescoes reveal Near Eastern history.

High among the crags of the Alborz mountains of northern Iran, upon a narrow spine of rock that rises sheer from the valley floor, there cling the ruins of one

On a clifftop in southern Sweden, fifty-nine great boulders form a 67-metre ship of stone — the grandest of Scandinavia’s enigmatic Iron Age stone ships.

On the western side of the great square of Isfahan, one of the largest and most magnificent public spaces in the world, rises a tall and elegant palace with a

On a hillside near Évora in Portugal stands the Almendres Cromlech, nearly a hundred granite stones raised around 6000 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, it is Iberia’s greatest megalithic monument.

There is a good chance you have already seen Alnwick Castle, even if you have never been to Northumberland. When the young wizards of Hogwarts had their first flying lesson,

Rising in tiers of honey-colored sandstone and white marble upon a forested hill above the still waters of the Maota Lake, in the desert state of Rajasthan in northern India,

High upon the southern slopes of Mount Aragats, the great extinct volcano that is the highest mountain in Armenia, at an altitude where the clouds themselves come to rest upon