The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem has been made a World Heritage Site, together with three other sites in Israel, Indonesia…
This year marks the 40th birthday of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention, which to-date protects almost 1,000 sites of outstanding cultural and natural…
In 1855, the young French archaeologist Léon Heuzey found the remains of a magnificent palace, concealed under a ruined chapel. The village…
Pompeii and its neighbour Herculaneum are among the oldest archaeological sites in the world, but today they risk destruction by exposure to…
The former capital of one of the greatest and wealthiest empires of the Indian subcontinent for 300 years until its destruction in…
The ancient temples of Angkor have endured nearly a millennium of conflict and warfare, but will this new visitor boom, asks Tom…
Exactly 100 years ago, the explorer Hiram Bingham found Machu Picchu on the eastern slopes of Peru’s soaring Andes mountains. He was…
The sprawling city at Angkor covered, at its peak, an astonishing 1,000km², and formed the heart of a Khmer Empire which spread…
The sheer scale of Rome's German frontier is overwhelming. Running for almost 550km, and boasting at least 60 forts, 80 fortlets and…
Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Manchester has shown that stone figures lying on their…
When we asked our readers if they had a favourite World Heritage Site, Mycenae was mentioned again and again. Featured in CWA…
Visitors to the Great Wall of China normally only see one small stretch of the wall - the Badaling section - a…