The ruins of the capital built by the parricidal King Kassapa I (477–95) lie on the steep slopes and at the ...
Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Sri Lanka after the destruction of Anuradhapura in 993. It comprises, besides the Brahmanic monuments ...
A sacred pilgrimage site for 22 centuries, this cave monastery, with its five sanctuaries, is the largest, best-preserved cave-temple complex in ...
This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the ...
Qal’at al-Bahrain is a typical tell – an artificial mound created by many successive layers of human occupation. The strata of ...
The site consists of seventeen buildings in Muharraq City, three offshore oyster beds, part of the seashore and the Qal’at Bu ...
The Dilmun Burial Mounds, built between 2050 and 1750 BCE, span over 21 archaeological sites in the western part of the ...
The protohistoric site of Bat lies near a palm grove in the interior of the Sultanate of Oman. Together with the ...
The oasis of Bahla owes its prosperity to the Banu Nebhan, the dominant tribe in the area from the 12th to ...
The property includes five aflaj irrigation systems and is representative of some 3,000 such systems still in use in Oman. The ...
The property, which is located on the east coast of the Sultanate of Oman, includes the ancient city of Qalhat, surrounded ...
When Vesuvius erupted on 24 August AD 79, it engulfed the two flourishing Roman towns of Pompei and Herculaneum, as well ...
Consisting of a series of catacombs, the necropolis developed from the 2nd century AD as the primary Jewish burial place outside Jerusalem ...
Tels (prehistoric settlement mounds), are characteristic of the flatter lands of the eastern Mediterranean, particularly Lebanon, Syria, Israel and eastern Turkey. ...
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City ...
As a holy city for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Jerusalem has always been of great symbolic importance. Among its 220 historic ...
This site is located a few kilometres south-west of Jerusalem, in the Central Highlands between Nablus and Hebron. The Battir hill ...
The inscribed property is situated 10 km south of Jerusalem on the site identified by Christian tradition as the birthplace of Jesus ...
The archaeological site contains some 3,500 underground chambers distributed among distinct complexes carved in the thick and homogenous soft chalk of ...
The use of a local limestone shaped the construction of the old town of Hebron/Al-Khalil during the Mamluk period between 1250 ...
Masada is a rugged natural fortress, of majestic beauty, in the Judaean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. It is a symbol ...
The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev Desert, ...
Located in south-west Sri Lanka, Sinharaja is the country's last viable area of primary tropical rainforest. More than 60% of the ...
Most of this archaeological site, which started as a Roman military camp and grew to become a town from the 5th ...