Gianfranco Rosi discusses exploring the past, present and future of Napoli in his new documentary, the Venice winner Pompei: Below the Clouds.

A missile strike that hit the buffer zone of the ancient, Unesco-protected city of Tyre, in southwest Lebanon, on Friday (6 March) damaged the perimeter of one of its major archaeological sites, ...

The ancient Khmer temple complex of Vat Phou in southern Laos may be one of Southeast Asia’s oldest places of worship ...

Ashes,' the directorial debut of Syrian journalist Daham Alasaad, follows the dogged efforts to bring Syrian war criminals to ...

Images circulating on social media showing a temple site in Cambodia that appears to replicate the famous Buddha head entwined in tree roots at Wat Mahathat have sparked widespread discussion online.

The Colosseum in ancient Rome had 50,000 spectators, the roar of the crowd, and… a snack break? Yep, the Romans didn’t just ...

The Moroccan capital makes for an understated spring city break, where ancient history and traditional elegance meet a great coastal location.

Most people’s mental map of Missouri includes barbecue, the Arch, maybe some caves, but medieval-style castle ruins? That’s ...

Hidden on Roosevelt Island sits a Gothic hospital ruin so hauntingly beautiful and historically dark that it makes you ...

Athens-based editor Katie Silcox has narrowed down this list of 15 places everyone should visit in Greece in their lifetime, ...

Every modern city loves to call itself historic, but some of them mean it in a much more literal way. In a few places, the ...

Emperors have come and gone but, today, the leaders of this Roman monument live and die by pincers, not swords ...