Explore

The largest and one of the best-preserved Roman ports in the Mediterranean comprises two harbor facilities near the Tiber River.

Il Ponte della Catene, or the Chains Bridge, spans the Lima River in Tuscany, connecting the towns of Fomoli and Chifenti.

The religious-social leadership of the Israelite nation, Bet She'arim became the preeminent Jewish cultural center following the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70.

Omo Hada is a rare surviving eighteenth-century traditional Indonesian village.

Situated 3,600 meters above the Spiti River, Nako is one of the most isolated villages on earth.

In 1911, the British Government of India decided to move the country's administrative capital from Calcutta to Delhi, inaugurating New Delhi in 1931.

Piedras Negras (Black Stones) was the capital of a Maya kingdom that stretched along the banks of Central America’s Usumacinta River between the 4th century BC and the 9th century AD.

Located on the eastern shore of Crete, Palaikastro is the only Minoan city to have survived intact - its harbor, outlying settlements, and sanctuaries preserved under 2,000 years of sediment.

Over more than 700 years, nine bridges were built in succession at a single spot along Europe's Neckar River, where the waterway weaves through the German city of Heidelberg.

Enclosed in Bodbe Cathedral is the grave of St. Nino, a most remarkable female figure in the early history of Christianity.

Commissioned by the Mamluk Sultan Al Muayyad Shaikh Ak Mahmudi (r 1412-21), the Bimaristan, or Sultan al Muayyad Hospital, was founded in 1418 as Cairo's main infirmary.

Hierakonpolis was the Predynastic capital of Upper Egypt, and grew to prominence in the mid-third millennium BC Dominating the site is an imposing structure built of unfired mud-brick.