These are the 25 countries which are home to the most significant cultural, historical and natural sites, according to UNESCO.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

In the north of Portugal, there lies a town founded by the ancient Romans over 2,000 years ago, the oldest city in Portugal: Braga. Renowned for its large amount of churches per capita and its ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Portugal is a paradise thanks to coastal retreats like this region of white sandy beaches that hides an abandoned chapel and ...

The centuries-old city of St. Augustine is an enduring reminder of Spain’s long history in Florida, going back generations ...

Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological site of an ancient Roman city.

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new ...

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