Todai-ji: Nara’s Great Buddha and the Timber Hall That Shelters It
On the wooded eastern edge of Nara, past a great wooden gate guarded by two glowering giants, rises one of the most extraordinary buildings ever raised in wood. Inside the
Ur: The Sumerian City of the Great Ziggurat and the Golden Royal Tombs
In the deserts of southern Iraq rise the ruins of Ur, one of the oldest cities in the world and a great capital of the Sumerians, the people who invented
Volubilis: Rome’s Mosaic City at the Western Edge of the Empire in Morocco
In the green hills of northern Morocco, not far from the imperial city of Meknes, stand the ruins of Volubilis, the finest Roman site in the country and one of
Wawel Royal Castle: The Sacred Hill at the Heart of Poland
There are castles that a nation loves, and then there is Wawel, which a nation almost worships. Rising on a limestone hill above the Vistula river in the heart of
Yinxu at Anyang: Where Chinese History Was First Written on Bone
Near the city of Anyang in northern China lie the ruins of Yinxu, the last capital of the Shang dynasty and the place where the recorded history of China effectively
