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Tombs at the Valley of Hinnom, the site in Jerusalem that became symbolic of an early version of hell, Gehenna.

Aerial view of the Bailem Valley, Papua New Guinea, a site of ancient Neolithic settlements and explored for the first time by Western explorers in the 1930s. In 2008, the Kuk Early Agricultural Site was designated a UNESCO World Heritage...

View towards the Vjosa valley from Byllis, Albania. The site occupied a dominant position on the summit of a hill, over the road from Apollonia to Epirus and into Macedonia.

West Point and the Highlands, colour engraving by Samuel Valentine Hunt, 1869. Depicted here is a view from the heights of the west bank of the Hudson River, looking northward along the valley. The United States Military Academy, also commonly...

Glendalough Valley, County Wicklow, Ireland, famous for its natural beauty and the 6th-century monastic community founded by Saint Kevin.

Cyrus the Great (558-530 BCE) built the first universal empire, stretching from Greece to the Indus River. This was the famous Achaemenid Empire of Persia. An inscription at Naqsh-i-Rustam, the tomb of his able successor Darius I (521-486...

The Upanishads are the philosophical-religious texts of Hinduism (also known as Sanatan Dharma meaning “Eternal Order” or “Eternal Path”) which develop and explain the fundamental tenets of the religion. The name is translated as to “sit...

When it comes to ancient history, Pakistan contains its fair share of treasures, one of the prominent of these being the ancient metropolis of Taxila. It is a city of the Gandharan civilization, sometimes known as one of its capitals, whose...

Across the ravines lies the battlefield of Yarmouk (636 CE), a picture taken 8 miles from battlefield, from Jordan.

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...