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The dramatic 17-m pyramidal structure of the Tomb of Askia in Mali was built by Askia Mohamed, the Emperor of Songhai, in 1495 A.D. in his capital Gao. It bears testimony to the power and riches of the empire that flourished in the 15th and...

The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. In ancient times, the site was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Source: UNESCO...

The two traditional villages of Xidi and Hongcun, China preserve to a remarkable extent the appearance of non-urban settlements of a type that largely disappeared or was transformed during the last century. Their street plan, their architecture...

The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania. The well-preserved remains of the old city include, in particular...

Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany in France stands the 'Wonder of the West', a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the archangel St. Michael, and the village...

Angkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 km2, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire...

With its strategic location on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Anatolia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Istanbul has been associated with major political, religious and artistic events for more than 2,000 years. Its...

Founded in the 5th century A.D. and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century A.D. The whole city is an extraordinary architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest building contains works...

The property includes several group and individual tombs - totalling about 30 individual tombs - from the later period of the Koguryo Kingdom, one of the strongest kingdoms in nowadays northeast China and half of the Korean peninsula between...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people towards the middle of the 10th century A.D...