The site features the remains of a city founded by Dorian Greeks in the 5th century BC on the northern shores of the [...]

This transboundary property stretches over 12 countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isolated refuge [...]

Located in southwestern Turkey, in the upper valley of the Morsynus River, the site consists of two components: the archaeological site of and [...]

This site is located on a secluded plateau of northeast Turkey overlooking a ravine that forms a natural border with Armenia. This medieval [...]

Troy, with its 4,000 years of history, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. The first excavations at the [...]

Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th century onwards, it developed into a great [...]

The impressive ruins of the largest colosseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheatre which could hold up to 35,000 spectators, are found in [...]

Some 40 villages grouped in eight parks situated in north-western Syria provide remarkable testimony to rural life in late Antiquity and during the [...]

Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, [...]

Bosra, once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, was an important stopover on the ancient caravan route to Mecca. A magnificent [...]

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was [...]

The Convent of St Gall, a perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery, was, from the 8th century to its secularization in 1805, [...]

The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived [...]

The , a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from [...]

The ruins of the capital built by the parricidal King Kassapa I (477–95) lie on the steep slopes and at the summit of [...]

Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Sri Lanka after the destruction of Anuradhapura in 993. It comprises, besides the Brahmanic monuments built by [...]

Located at the heart of Andalusia in southern Spain, the site comprises three megalithic monuments: the Menga and Viera dolmens and the Tholos [...]

This transboundary property stretches over 12 countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isolated refuge [...]

The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between [...]

The caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca contain a rich fossil record of the earliest human beings in Europe, from nearly one million [...]