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Angkor was once the seat of the Khmer Empire, which ruled a large portion of Southeast Asia between the ninth and fifteenth centuries AD.

The whole of historic Havana is in dire need of conservation.

Albingaunum, the wealthy Roman city along the River Centa, was important because of its position as a gateway to the fertile plains of northern Italy, Gaul, and the Mediterranean.

Emperor Minh Mạng (1820-1841), the second ruler of the Nguyễn Dynasty, ruled southern and central Vietnam from 1820 to 1841.

In the 16th and 17th centuries colonial Catholic missions were established in the Oyón Valley in Peru and built in a style described as Rural Andean Baroque.

The garden of the Villa Medici at Castello is the prototype for sixteenth-century Italian gardens.

The Church of Our Lady’s Assumption was founded in the mid-twelfth century within a Norbertine monastery.

Forest exploitation is damaging the ancient heartland of the Warao, one of the oldest cultures of the region.

San Giacomo Maggiore boasts an elegant portico - the only one of Renaissance style in Bologna - along its northern side.

Until its independence from the Soviets in 1991, the Abava River valley, a region that developed during the Middle Ages along the route to Germany, had remained immune to the modern age.

Paradoxically, Vat Sisaket is the oldest and newest monastery in the Laotian capital.

The aqueduct system is a rare example of medieval water architecture, which survived through the 1960s in essentially working order.