Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

Jericho’s walls came tumbling down, and their ruins are the major tourist venue in this West Bank city established perhaps 11,000 years ago, among the oldest inhabited sites in the world.

A filming location in Iraq for the original horror classic The Exorcist became an unexpected, short-lived tourist attraction.

His father worked here, where he died of a heart attack among the ruins, and since 2001 Abdullah has worked here too. “My relationship with this place is above a job,” he told me.

Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land comprises five sites, including the sacred Mount Kinkeisan. It features vestiges of government offices dating ...