In the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon stand some of the most colossal temples the Roman world ever built. This is Baalbek, known in antiquity as Heliopolis, the City of the

Few names from the ancient world carry as much weight as Babylon. For thousands of years it was a byword for splendour, power and sometimes decadence, a great city on

On a bend of the Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar lies one of the most extraordinary religious landscapes on earth. Across the dusty plain of Bagan stand thousands of Buddhist

On a bend of the Chao Phraya River, a short journey upstream from Bangkok and just below the ruins of the old capital of Ayutthaya, lies one of the most

At the southern edge of Sydney, where the suburb of La Perouse looks out across the mouth of Botany Bay, a short wooden footbridge leads out to a small rocky

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Here is a strange kind of masterpiece: a castle so perfectly designed that architects still study it as the textbook ideal, and yet a castle that was never actually finished.

El Mirador rose centuries before Tikal, raising La Danta, one of the largest pyramids ever built, deep in Guatemala’s Mirador Basin rainforest.

The Sumerians themselves believed Eridu was the very first city on Earth, the place where kingship was lowered down from heaven at the dawn of time, according to the Sumerian

High in the mountains of the Chouf, south of Beirut, on a ridge above deep terraced valleys, stands the most beautiful palace in Lebanon. Beiteddine, whose name means the house