Arches is a new open-source geospatial software system for cultural heritage inventory and management, developed jointly by the Getty Conservation Institute and World Monuments Fund.
The 7,500-acre Fort Apache Reservation served as operations base from which the US Army carried out assaults against renegade Apache bands in an effort to settle the West.
The Tutuveni Petroglyph site boasts more than 5,000 Hopi clan symbols inscribed during the ceremonial pilgrimage to Ongtupqa, the Hopi the point of their people's emergence into the world.
Situated in the sun-baked valley of a Rio Grande tributary and continuously inhabited for 1,000 years, the community and architecture of Taos Pueblo exemplify the enduring spirit of the Pueblo people.
Ellis Island in New York Harbor was the principle point of entry for immigrants to America from 1892 until 1924, during which period an estimated 12 million people were processed.
Route 66, once the primary highway from America's interior to the West Coast, has played a now-legendary role in US history since its designation in 1926.
Five historical burial grounds are scattered around Edinburgh’s city center, oases amid the dense urban surroundings often full of students and tourists.
The oasis of Merv is strategically sited in the Karakum desert and formed an essential military headquarters and staging post on major east-west trade routes.