On the northern side of the great Plaza Mayor of Lima, the ceremonial heart of the Peruvian capital, stands a long and stately building that has been the center of

On the northwestern outskirts of Beijing, among lakes and wooded hills, lies a place that occupies a unique and painful position in the Chinese imagination. The Old Summer Palace, known

The world knows the Louvre as the greatest museum on earth, the home of the Mona Lisa and countless other treasures, visited by more people than any other art gallery

Rising sheer from the plains of central India, a long flat-topped hill of yellow sandstone lifts the great fort of Gwalior high above the city that shares its name. Along

Joya de Ceren, El Salvador’s Pompeii of the Americas, preserves an ordinary Maya farming village buried by volcanic ash around 600 CE.

On two small Mediterranean islands stand the oldest free-standing stone monuments on Earth. Malta’s megalithic temples were built around 3600 BC — a thousand years before the pyramids — by farmers, not giants.

Rising above the Moskva River in the very centre of Moscow, its mighty red walls and towers enclosing a glittering treasure house of golden-domed cathedrals and grand palaces, stands the

In the northeastern city of Shenyang, far from the great capital of Beijing, stands a palace that holds a special place in the history of China. The Mukden Palace, also

The Nazca people carved hundreds of massive desert drawings meant to be seen from above, centuries before anyone could have flown over them.

On a high, dry plateau on the southern coast of Peru, one of the most enigmatic works of the ancient world lies etched into the desert floor. Across kilometres of