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With a settlement history spanning some 1,200 years, the cultural landscape of Iskandarouna-Naqoura, including the site of Umm el-Amed, is rich in archaeological remains and natural resources.

Considered among the most important pre-pottery Neolithic sites in the whole of the ancient Near East, Ain Ghazal first came to light during road construction on the outskirts of Amman in 1974.

The largest and one of the best-preserved Roman ports in the Mediterranean comprises two harbor facilities near the Tiber River.

The recently excavated settlement of Apollonia-Arsuf was founded by the Persians and occupied well into the thirteenth century AD.

In the early 1770s Thomas Taylor, the first Earl of Headfort, commissioned Irish architect George Semple to build Headfort House.

Set in an idyllic landscape of verdant green rolling hills along the banks of the River Suir, the ruins of Athassel Abbey stand as a romantic symbol of Ireland's legendary past.

Tamansari, meaning perfumed garden, is the name for the gardens and associated structures built in 1765 for Hamengku Buwono I, the sultan of the kingdom of Yogyakarta.

Omo Hada is a rare surviving eighteenth-century traditional Indonesian village.

Designed around the idea of coexistence of the religious and secular, a core principle of the Sikh faith, the Quila Mubarak remains the most rare and outstanding example of Sikh palace architecture.

The walled city of Bhuj was the capital of the princely state of Kutch in the Gujarat.

Originally built as a single-nave masonry church in the thirteenth century, Túrony Church, in a Village just south of Pees, is among the earliest surviving structures representing Hungarian statehood.

Located on the eastern shore of Crete, Palaikastro is the only Minoan city to have survived intact - its harbor, outlying settlements, and sanctuaries preserved under 2,000 years of sediment.