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Chersonesos, on the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea, was founded by Greek settlers in the fifth century BC and was occupied during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine eras.

Nestled among the foothills of the Pieniny and Gorce mountains, Debno Parish Church is an exceptional example of the wooden Gothic churches of southern Poland.

In 1911, at the time of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China, the independence of Outer Mongolia was proclaimed.

Publio Pomponio Corneliano and his family constructed the hypogeum of Santa Maria in Stelle in the early third century AD.

Aristocratic Romans who followed the doctrines of Neo-Pythagoreanism literally went underground to practice their beliefs.

The popularity of a religious site can threaten both its spiritual quality and its physical fabric.

Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel (1677-1723) was one of the greatest architects of baroque Europe.

Over ninety percent of the buildings in Tvrđa were damaged in the Yugoslav war.

More than two thousand missiles struck Dubrovnik during the siege in 1991 and 1992.

The Chaco Culture National Historical Park contains the greatest concentration of prehistoric ruins in the United States.

The Festspielhaus Hellerau is one of the birthplaces of modernism as well as an important artifact of European architectural and cultural history.

Diocletian's splendid palace at Split stood alone until the 7th century, when refugees fleeing the destruction of nearby Salona, the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, transformed it into a town.