Some monuments impress by their scale, but A Famosa moves you by its survival. In the heart of the Malaysian city of Melaka stands a single weathered stone gateway, the

Deep in the far south of Egypt, close to the border with Sudan, four giant figures sit carved into a cliff of golden sandstone, each of them a portrait of

Among the many temples of ancient Egypt, few are as sacred, or as beautiful, as Abydos. For thousands of years this was the holiest cult centre of Osiris, the god

On a ridge above the southern coast of Sicily stands one of the most spectacular groups of Greek temples anywhere in the world. The Valley of the Temples at Agrigento

On the edge of the Sahara, where the great Atlas Mountains give way to the desert, rises one of the most extraordinary and beautiful fortified villages in the world: Aït

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

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

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,

Some places overwhelm you not with a single monument but with an entire vanished world, and Angkor Thom is one of them. The last great capital of the mighty Khmer

Deep in the forests of northern Cambodia lies the largest religious monument ever built. Angkor Wat is only the most famous of hundreds of temples that once formed the heart