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Moselle Valley
Image by Carole Raddato

Moselle Valley

The Moselle Valley is known as Germany's oldest wine-growing region and is home to the world's steepest vineyards. The Romans brought viticulture to this area and planted vines along the Moselle River 2000 years ago. Along the entire Moselle...
Camel Riders Discovering a Lush Valley
Image by Mohawk Games

Camel Riders Discovering a Lush Valley

Artist's impression of camel riders discovering a lush mountain valley. The camel was a common mode of transport in Africa and the Middle East during ancient, medieval and early modern times.
Rock Drawings of Valcamonica
Article by Ingrid Garosi

Rock Drawings of Valcamonica

The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90 km in the Italian provinces of Brescia and Bergamo in Lombardy. The name...
Pit River Valley, Modoc County, California
Image by Robert F. Ettner

Pit River Valley, Modoc County, California

The Pit River winds through the Modoc Plateau, once the home of the Native American Modoc nation. Photograph by Robert F. Ettner, Natural Resources Staff Officer, Siskiyou National Forest, US Forest Service, 2006.
Yarmouk Valley
Image by Mohammad Adil

Yarmouk Valley

Across the ravines lies the battlefield of Yarmouk (636 CE), a picture taken 8 miles from battlefield, from Jordan.
A Valley at Boeotia
Image by Athanasios Fountoukis

A Valley at Boeotia

The landscape of Boeotia, Greece during the spring from the monastery of Hosios Loukas near the town of Distomo.
Reconstructed Funerary Temple in the Moselle Valley
Image by Carole Raddato

Reconstructed Funerary Temple in the Moselle Valley

Along the entire Moselle from Trier to Koblenz in Germany, archaeologists have found remains of Roman estates, temples, mausolea, and various wine presses at the foot of several vineyard slopes. Nehren was apparently the location of a large...
The Vedas
Definition by Joshua J. Mark

The Vedas

The Vedas are the religious texts which inform the religion of Hinduism (also known as Sanatan Dharma meaning “Eternal Order” or “Eternal Path”). The term veda means “knowledge” in that they are thought to contain the fundamental knowledge...
Gandhara Civilization
Definition by Muhammad Bin Naveed

Gandhara Civilization

The Gandhara Civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BCE to the beginning of the 2nd millennium CE. Although multiple major powers ruled over this area during that time...
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley (UNESCO/NHK)
Video by UNESCO TV NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai

Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley (UNESCO/NHK)

The Vézère valley in France contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its...
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