Shahr-i Sokhta, meaning ‘Burnt City’, is located at the junction of Bronze Age trade routes crossing the Iranian plateau. The remains ...
Hyrcanian forests form a unique forested massif that stretches 850 km along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. The history ...
The archaeological site of Takht-e Soleyman, in north-western Iran, is situated in a valley set in a volcanic mountain region. The ...
The 53 m high tomb built in ad 1006 for Qābus Ibn Voshmgir, Ziyarid ruler and literati, near the ruins of the ...
Throughout the arid regions of Iran, agricultural and permanent settlements are supported by the ancient qanat system of tapping alluvial aquifers ...
The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka are in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian ...
The Nalanda Mahavihara site is in the State of Bihar, in north-eastern India. It comprises the archaeological remains of a monastic ...
On the shores of the Bay of Bengal, bathed in the rays of the rising sun, the temple at Konarak is ...
The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the ...
Situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat, at the meeting-point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, this ancient city, formerly known as ...
In the heart of Assam, this park is one of the last areas in eastern India undisturbed by a human presence. ...
Known as the gateway to the desert, Agadez, on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries ...
This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering some 7.7 million ha, though the area considered a protected sanctuary constitutes ...
The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 ha of hillside within Kampala district. Most of ...
Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to ...
The Rwenzori Mountains National Park covers nearly 100,000 ha in western Uganda and comprises the main part of the Rwenzori mountain ...
Located in south-western Uganda, at the junction of the plain and mountain forests, Bwindi Park covers 32,000 ha and is known ...
On the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters, overhanging slabs of sedimentary ...
The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the country on a plateau with deep gorges ...
The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African continent. The remains found at ...
Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost ...
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder ...
The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the ...