This vol­canic arch­i­pel­ago, with its spec­tac­u­lar land­scapes, is sit­u­at­ed off the coast of the Hebrides and com­pris­es t…

The Cis­ter­cian order was found­ed in 1098, in Bur­gundy by the abbot Robert de Molesmes, who pro­claimed the abdi­ca­tion …

Car­a­vanserais were wide­ly used in the east as places where car­a­vans of traders could stop for the night when mov­ing f…

The Bushirib­ana Gold Mill Ruins which was once a gold pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty is now a pop­u­lar sight see­ing spot. This fo…

A nat­ur­al for­ma­tion of caves forty-six kilo­me­tres from Trinidad and rec­og­nized by UNESCO.

Tels (pre­his­toric set­tle­ment mounds), are char­ac­ter­is­tic of the flat­ter lands of the east­ern Mediter­ranean, par­tic­u­la…

The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shiv­ta, along with asso­ci­at­ed fortress­es and agri­cul­tur­al lands…

Masa­da is a rugged nat­ur­al fortress, of majes­tic beau­ty, in the Judaean Desert over­look­ing the Dead Sea. It is a symb…

Sit­u­at­ed on the east­ern bank of the Riv­er Jor­dan, nine kilo­me­tres north of the Dead Sea, the archae­o­log­i­cal site cons…

The archae­o­log­i­cal site of Samaipa­ta con­sists of two parts: the hill with its many carv­ings, believed to have been th…

Carthage was found­ed in the 9th cen­tu­ry B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th cen­tu­ry onwards, it devel­oped into a …

Kuk Ear­ly Agri­cul­tur­al Site con­sists of 116 ha of swamps in the west­ern high­lands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above se…

Two hills form the 37&nbsp,ha site on the South­ern Ana­to­lian Plateau. The taller east­ern mound con­tains eigh­teen leve…

Zelve Archae­o­log­i­cal Site Zelve was found­ed on the steep and north­ern slopes of Akte­pe. Zelve Archae­o­log­i­cal Site, wh…

Pre­served by its long iso­la­tion, the Upper Svaneti region of the Cau­ca­sus is an excep­tion­al exam­ple of moun­tain scene…

The church, bap­tistry, basil­i­cas, pub­lic build­ings, streets, monas­ter­ies, hous­es and work­shops in this ear­ly Chris­tia…

On the shores of the Mediter­ranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trad­ing-post con­quered by Rome and turned into a stra…

Ruins of an ancient Mayan city. The huge city con­sist­ed of 34 build­ings, where there was a place for baths for roy­al …

The ancient city was found­ed on the banks of the Euphrates in 300 BC by Seleu­cus I Nica­tor. It was of great com­mer­cia…

At the exca­va­tion site, they found a cult build­ing made of unbaked bricks — a zig­gu­rat, as well as frag­ments of the r…