Few ruins in the world manage to feel this alive. Walk into Ephesus early in the day, before the crowds thicken along the marble, and the city almost hums. Grooves

Most cities cannot tell you the year they were born. Yerevan can. High on a hill overlooking the modern Armenian capital stand the remains of an ancient fortress whose founding

In the green foothills of the Greater Caucasus, in what is now northern Azerbaijan, lie the ruins of a city that was once the capital of a kingdom most people

Set on a dramatic promontory high in the Armenian highlands, above a deep gorge whose walls are lined with strange columns of natural stone, stands a building that seems at

On a stretch of rugged, semi-arid land not far from the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan lies one of the most extraordinary open-air galleries in the world. Here, among a chaos

Out on the dry central plateau of Anatolia, where the Sakarya River winds through low hills and wheat fields, a great flat-topped mound rises above the plain like an artificial

High in the Austrian Alps, a picture-perfect village of steep-roofed houses clings to a narrow strip of shore between a dark mountain and a still green lake. Hallstatt is one

For a long time, one of the great empires of the ancient world was almost completely forgotten. The Hittites, who once ruled much of Anatolia and challenged the mighty powers

On the broad plain west of Yerevan, within sight of the snow-capped peak of Mount Ararat, rises a modest hill that holds one of the oldest and most fascinating archaeological

Stand today in the ruins of Miletus and you will notice something odd for a place that was once one of the greatest ports in the Greek world: there is