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

Archaeological site of Cyrene, Libya.

The Dura-Europos Church is the oldest Christian house of worship extant. Formerly a private home, it was converted into a church between 233 and 256. The church was discovered by French archaeologists in the excavation season of 1931-1932...

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

"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.

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.

Cemenelum was an important Roman town that was chosen by the Emperor Augustus as the capital of the Roman province of Alpes Maritimae, on the Ligurian coast, in 14 BCE. It is today surrounded by the Cimiez neighborhood of Nice, France. The...

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 that bear testimony...

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 III. The inscriptions...

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 adapted to its religious function...