The Valley of the Kings and other bucket-list Egyptian destinations offer a glimpse into millennia-old majesty and artistry ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

Such was the case last month when construction workers in Greece discovered a civl war-era mass grave in the ancient Greek ...

Paros was a chance for old friends to reflect on life, and to see a familiar place with new eyes. It is still the ...

Thonis-Heracleion once thrived at the mouth of the Nile, a vibrant city pulsing with trade and ceremony long before ...

India’s history is a tapestry woven with the rise and fall of magnificent cities, some of which have faded from modern maps ...

A beautiful little Greek island is way off the tourist map and close to Italy. Othonoi is a small inhabited island in the ...

In one of Europe’s oldest cities, a marvel of modern engineering now rumbles beneath ancient streets ... most significant Roman and Byzantine-era ruins ever discovered. The project, a long ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Though few have heard of the ancient queen, nearly everyone has heard ... Initially, historians believed the ruins at Gradishte were built during the reign of Macedonian leader King Philip V ...

Built on top of rocks in the Meteora region in northern Greece, the Meteora monasteries have attracted the attention of believers and nature lovers for centuries. Meteora is a complex of six Orthodox ...