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Archaeological site of Cyrene, Libya.

"The Point", home of the Hoyt family from c. 1857-1963, Staatsburg, NY, USA. Restoration efforts to save the historic structure, designed by Clavert Vaux, are presently underway.

The Lion Temple, located in present-day Jaffa, Israel, got its name from a lioness' skull that was found within it. This skull was apparently used in a ritual performed here at the time of the ancient Canaanites...

View of the west side of the estate of Wyndclyffe, built in 1853, once one of the grandest estates of the Hudson River Valley.

Armenia's Tatev Monastery was founded in the 9th century CE, and it is renown for its architecture and history.

Sapinuwa was an important Hittite military and religious centre (today Ortakoy in central Turkey). The city was established in a long valley between Alacahöyük and Hattusa, along the east-west trade route leading to Middle Anatolia...

A column drum and the stylobate of the 4th century BCE temple of Athena at Tegea in the Peloponnese. Originally the temple had 6 x 14 columns and was part of the sanctuary dedicated to Athena Alea.

The 11,130m2 property in Burkina Faso, the first to be inscribed in the country, with its imposing stone walls is the best preserved of ten fortresses in the Lobi area and is part of a larger group of 100 stone enclosures...

The tower lies on a hill near Barkal, a modern village south-west of Lake Darband-i-Khan, Sulaimaniya Governorate, Iraq. It was set up as a monument commemorating the victory of the Sassanian king Narseh over his nephew Warham...

Evidence of the rise of Mahayana Buddhism in Bengal from the 7th century onwards, Somapura Mahavira, or the Great Monastery, was a renowned intellectual centre until the 12th century. Its layout perfectly...